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CVE-2020-25016

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.

Affected products

• Rgb-Rust Project Rgb-Rust: before 0.8.20 — fixed in 0.8.20

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rgb-Rust Project Rgb-Rust 0.8.20. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0029.html
• https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0029.html

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