CVE-2021-28305

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An issue was discovered in the diesel crate before 1.4.6 for Rust. There is a use-after-free in the SQLite backend because the semantics of sqlite3_column_name are not followed.

Affected products

Diesel: before 1.4.6 — fixed in 1.4.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Diesel 1.4.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0037.html
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0037.html

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