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CVE-2020-25576

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: none known
• Published: 2020-09-14 · updated 2026-08-19
• Weakness: CWE-704

Description

An issue was discovered in the rand_core crate before 0.4.2 for Rust. Casting of byte slices to integer slices mishandles alignment constraints.

Affected products

• Rust-Random Rand: before 0.4.2 — fixed in 0.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rust-Random Rand 0.4.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0035.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0035.html

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