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RUSTSEC-2020-0025:
Rust vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
An issue was discovered in the bigint crate through 2020-05-07 for Rust that allows a soundness violation. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2020-35880 and was publicly disclosed on December 31, 2020. The affected software is the bigint crate for Rust programming language, versions up to and including 4.4.3 (NVD, CVE).
Technical details
The vulnerability received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating a critical severity level. The CVSS v2.0 Base Score was assessed at 7.5 (HIGH) with the vector string (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows for a soundness violation in the Rust programming language context, which could potentially lead to memory safety issues and compromise the integrity of systems using the affected bigint crate (CVE).
Mitigation and workarounds
The project has been deprecated and users are advised to use the 'uint' crate instead. This was implemented in version 4.4.3 of the bigint crate (Github Commit).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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