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CVE-2020-35920

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in the socket2 crate before 0.3.16 for Rust. It has false expectations about the std::net::SocketAddr memory representation.

Affected products

• rust-lang Socket2: before 0.3.16 — fixed in 0.3.16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rust-lang Socket2 0.3.16. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0079.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0079.html

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