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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2021-26308 json

Uninitialized buffer use in marc

published 2021-01-26 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3mf3-2gv9-h39j , RUSTSEC-2021-0014 , EUVD-2021-1549

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the marc crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. A user-provided Read implementation can gain access to the old contents of newly allocated memory, violating soundness.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io marc 2.0.0
  • marc_project marc 2.0.0

Exploit prediction

1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • rustsec.org https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0014.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io marc
<2.0.0
>=0.0.0-0, <2.0.0
2.0.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Sources

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