CVE-2020-25575 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010

Published: 2020-09-14

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:failure_project:failure:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3	Type confusion if __private_get_type_id__ is overriden

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00623.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/
https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00711}`	epss `{'score': 0.00619}`

Subscriptions

Failure Project Failure

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-09-14T18:15:48.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:33:05.684Z

Reserved: 2020-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-25575

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:33:05.684Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-14T19:15:11.397

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:18:08.967

Link: CVE-2020-25575

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-843

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