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CVE-2021-45696

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.8%

Critical (9.8) in sha2 project sha2. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in sha2 0.9.8.

An issue was discovered in the sha2 crate 0.9.7 before 0.9.8 for Rust. Hashes of long messages may be incorrect when the AVX2-accelerated backend is used.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-327
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-fc7x-2cmc-8j2gcrates.iosha2>=0.9.7 <0.9.80.9.8
GHSA-xpww-g9jx-hp8rcrates.iosha2>=0.9.7 <0.9.80.9.8
RUSTSEC-2021-0100crates.iosha2>=0.9.7 <0.9.80.9.8

References

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