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CVE-2021-45680

• 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: none known
• Published: 2021-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in the vec-const crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. It tries to construct a Vec from a pointer to a const slice, leading to memory corruption.

Affected products

• Vec-Const Project Vec-Const: before 2.0.0 — fixed in 2.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Vec-Const Project Vec-Const 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/vec-const/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/vec-const/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.html

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