CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-35889

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Dec 31, 2020 | Modified: Jan 07, 2021
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in the crayon crate through 2020-08-31 for Rust. A TOCTOU issue has a resultant memory safety violation via HandleLike.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Crayon Crayon_project * 0.7.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References