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CVE-2019-16882

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An issue was discovered in the string-interner crate before 0.7.1 for Rust. It allows attackers to read from memory locations associated with dangling pointers, because of a cloning flaw.

Affected products

• String-Interner Project String-Interner: before 0.7.1 — fixed in 0.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: String-Interner Project String-Interner 0.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0023.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0023.html

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