CVE-2022-36124: Memory overconsumption in Avro Rust SDK

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-09 · updated 2026-06-23
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

It is possible for a Reader to consume memory beyond the allowed constraints and thus lead to out of memory on the system. 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/kj429rzo1xxjgz058qqqg0y7c0p512zo
https://lists.apache.org/thread/kj429rzo1xxjgz058qqqg0y7c0p512zo

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