CVE-2022-36125: Integer overflow when reading corrupted .avro file 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 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

It is possible to crash (panic) an application by providing a corrupted data to be read. 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/t1r5xz0pvhm4tosqopjpj6dz8zlsht07
https://lists.apache.org/thread/t1r5xz0pvhm4tosqopjpj6dz8zlsht07

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