Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-36443 - Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in Libp2P Libp2P-Deflate

CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

libp2p

CWE-908

critical

NVD

Published: 2021-08-08

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

An issue was discovered in the libp2p-deflate crate before 0.27.1 for Rust. An uninitialized buffer is passed to AsyncRead::poll_read(), which is a user-provided trait function.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Libp2P Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.1.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.2.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.3.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.4.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.5.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.6.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.7.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.16.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.17.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.18.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.19.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.19.1 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.19.2 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.20.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.21.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.22.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.23.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.24.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.25.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.26.0 Libp2P Libp2P Deflate 0.27.0	21

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References