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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-16139 json

Out of bounds access in compact_arena

published 2019-05-21 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-7j36-gc4r-9x3r , RUSTSEC-2019-0015 , EUVD-2021-1621

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the compact_arena crate before 0.4.0 for Rust. Generativity is mishandled, leading to an out-of-bounds write or read.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io compact_arena 0.4.0
  • compact_arena_project compact_arena 0.4.0

Exploit prediction

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io compact_arena
<0.4.0
>=0.0.0-0, <0.4.0
0.4.0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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