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CVE-2021-45705

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: 2021-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in the nanorand crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There can be multiple mutable references to the same object because the TlsWyRand Deref implementation dereferences a raw pointer.

Affected products

• Nanorand Project Nanorand: from 0.5.0 before 0.6.1 — fixed in 0.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Nanorand Project Nanorand 0.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nanorand/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/nanorand/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.md
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0114.html

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