Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36217

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 26 January 2021

Published
26 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0039 60.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36217 is a medium-severity Improper Synchronization (CWE-662) vulnerability in May Queue Project May Queue. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the may_queue crate through 2020-11-10 for Rust. Because Queue does not have bounds on its Send trait or Sync trait, memory corruption can occur.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

may queue project
may queue
≤ 2020-11-10

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References