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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2020-36460

High
8.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the model crate through 2020-11-10 for Rust. The Shared data structure has an implementation of the Send and Sync traits without regard for the inner type.

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

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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Advisory Timeline

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