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CVE-2020-36442

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

An issue was discovered in the beef crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. beef::Cow has no Sync bound on its Send trait.

Affected products

• Beef Project Beef: before 0.5.0 — fixed in 0.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Beef Project Beef 0.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/beef/RUSTSEC-2020-0122.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0122.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/beef/RUSTSEC-2020-0122.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0122.html

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