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CVE-2020-36512

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-908

Description

An issue was discovered in the buffoon crate through 2020-12-31 for Rust. InputStream::read_exact may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Affected products

• Buffoon Project Buffoon: 0.5.0

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/buffoon/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/buffoon/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0154.html

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