CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-25576
Critical (9.8) in rust-random rand. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in rand_core 0.3.1, 0.4.2.
An issue was discovered in the rand_core crate before 0.4.2 for Rust. Casting of byte slices to integer slices mishandles alignment constraints.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-704
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- rust-random:rand
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-mmc9-pwm7-qj5w | crates.io | rand_core | >=0.4.0 <0.4.2 | 0.4.2 |
| GHSA-mmc9-pwm7-qj5w | crates.io | rand_core | <0.3.1 | 0.3.1 |
| RUSTSEC-2019-0035 | crates.io | rand_core | >=0.0.0-0 <0.3.1 >=0.4.0-0 <0.4.2 | 0.3.1, 0.4.2 |