CVE-2022-35724: Denial of service while reading data in Avro Rust SDK

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

It is possible to provide data to be read that leads the reader to loop in cycles endlessly, consuming CPU. This issue affects Rust applications using Apache Avro Rust SDK prior to 0.14.0 (previously known as avro-rs). Users should update to apache-avro version 0.14.0 which addresses this issue.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Avro: before 0.14.0 — fixed in 0.14.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Avro 0.14.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/771z1nwrpkn1ovmyfb2fm65mchdxgy7p
https://lists.apache.org/thread/771z1nwrpkn1ovmyfb2fm65mchdxgy7p

Get alerted when CVE-2022-35724 or the next vulnerability affects your stack