VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-26958

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-02-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-252

Primary references