Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-26958 - Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in XCB Project XCB 20201210/20210204

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
xcb-project
CWE-252

Summary

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Xcb_Project
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)