Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-28875

HighPublic PoC

Published: 11 April 2021

Published
11 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0042 62.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-28875 is a high-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability in Rust-Lang Rust. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.9% 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

In the standard library in Rust before 1.50.0, read_to_end() does not validate the return value from Read in an unsafe context. This bug could lead to a buffer overflow.

CWE(s)
CWE-252

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

rust-lang
rust
≤ 1.50.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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