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RUSTSEC-2021-0127:
Rust vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
An issue was discovered in the v9 crate through 2020-12-18 for Rust, identified as RUSTSEC-2021-0127. The vulnerability involves an unconditional implementation of Sync for SyncRef, which could lead to synchronization issues in Rust applications (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 8.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. It is classified under CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'). The vulnerability affects all versions of the v9 crate up to and including version 0.1.41 (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability could potentially lead to race conditions and synchronization issues in applications using the affected v9 crate versions. Given the CVSS score and vector, successful exploitation could result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected systems (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to a version of the v9 crate released after December 18, 2020, which contains fixes for this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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