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CVE-2021-38190

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the nalgebra crate before 0.27.1 for Rust. It allows out-of-bounds memory access because it does not ensure that the number of elements is equal to the product of the row count and column count.

Affected products

• Dimforge Nalgebra: before 0.27.1 — fixed in 0.27.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dimforge Nalgebra 0.27.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nalgebra/RUSTSEC-2021-0070.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0070.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nalgebra/RUSTSEC-2021-0070.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0070.html

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