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CVE-2021-38192

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

An issue was discovered in the prost-types crate before 0.8.0 for Rust. An overflow can occur during conversion from Timestamp to SystemTime.

Affected products

• Prost Project Prost: before 0.8.0 — fixed in 0.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Prost Project Prost 0.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/prost-types/RUSTSEC-2021-0073.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0073.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/prost-types/RUSTSEC-2021-0073.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0073.html

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