CVE-2020-35897
Data races in atom
An issue was discovered in the atom crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. An unsafe Send implementation allows a cross-thread data race.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in the atom crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. An unsafe Send implementation allows a cross-thread data race.
- Record
CVE-2020-35897- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 1.9 Low
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in the atom crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. An unsafe Send implementation allows a cross-thread data race.
- Record
CVE-2020-35897- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-1655 No score
An issue was discovered in the atom crate before 0.3.6 for Rust. An unsafe Send implementation allows a cross-thread data race.
- Record
EUVD-2021-1655- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9cg2-2j2h-59v9
Data races in atom
The atom crate contains a security issue revolving around its implementation of the Send trait. It incorrectly allows any arbitrary type to be sent across threads potentially leading to use-after-free issues through memory races.
- Record
GHSA-9cg2-2j2h-59v9- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-9cg2-2j2h-59v9
Data races in atom
The atom crate contains a security issue revolving around its implementation of the Send trait. It incorrectly allows any arbitrary type to be sent across threads potentially leading to use-after-free issues through memory races.
- Record
GHSA-9cg2-2j2h-59v9- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVRUSTSEC-2020-0044
Unsafe Send implementation in Atom allows data races
The atom crate contains a security issue revolving around its implementation
of the Send trait. It incorrectly allows any arbitrary type to be sent across
threads potentially leading to use-after-free issues through memory races.
- Record
RUSTSEC-2020-0044- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-35897 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.7) in Atom Project Atom, published September 21, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.20%, the 9th percentile. Fixed in atom 0.3.6.