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Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

CVE-2019-15541

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

The software constructs a string for a command to executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string.

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