CVE-2020-36323

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36323

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3063

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36323.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.52.0-1
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.53.0+dfsg1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.