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CVE-2021-28030

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2021-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-908

Description

An issue was discovered in the truetype crate before 0.30.1 for Rust. Attackers can read the contents of uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read operation within Tape::take_bytes.

Affected products

• Truetype Project Truetype: before 0.30.1 — fixed in 0.30.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Truetype Project Truetype 0.30.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0029.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0029.html

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