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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2021-45686 json

Use of Uninitialized Resource in csv-sniffer.

published 2021-01-05 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9783-42pm-x5jq , GHSA-r67p-m7g9-gxw6 , RUSTSEC-2021-0088 , EUVD-2022-0542

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the csv-sniffer crate through 2021-01-05 for Rust. preamble_skipcount may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io csv-sniffer 0.2.0

Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% 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 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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 csv-sniffer
<0.2.0
>=0.0.0-0, <0.2.0
0.2.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.