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CVE-2021-45683

'Read' on uninitialized memory may cause UB

9.8 Critical

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.23%Up 0.6 points since Dec 27, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Record
CVE-2021-45683
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-908
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Record
CVE-2021-45683
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-0566 No score

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Record
EUVD-2022-0566
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-cw4j-cf6c-mmfv 9.8

Use of Uninitialized Resource in binjs_io.

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Record
GHSA-cw4j-cf6c-mmfv
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-908
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c6px-4grw-hrjr No score

'Read' on uninitialized memory may cause UB

Affected versions of this crate passes an uninitialized buffer to a user-provided Read implementation. The crate currently contains 4 occurrences of such cases. Arbitrary Read implementations can read from the uninitialized buffer (memory exposure) and also can return incorrect number of bytes written to the buffer. Reading from uninitialized memory produces undefined values that can quickly invoke undefined behavior.

Record
GHSA-c6px-4grw-hrjr
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-cw4j-cf6c-mmfv 9.8

Use of Uninitialized Resource in binjs_io.

An issue was discovered in the binjs_io crate through 2021-01-03 for Rust. The Read method may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Record
GHSA-cw4j-cf6c-mmfv
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-908
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-c6px-4grw-hrjr No score

'Read' on uninitialized memory may cause UB

Affected versions of this crate passes an uninitialized buffer to a user-provided Read implementation. The crate currently contains 4 occurrences of such cases. Arbitrary Read implementations can read from the uninitialized buffer (memory exposure) and also can return incorrect number of bytes written to the buffer. Reading from uninitialized memory produces undefined values that can quickly invoke undefined behavior.

Record
GHSA-c6px-4grw-hrjr
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRUSTSEC-2021-0085 No score

'Read' on uninitialized memory may cause UB

Affected versions of this crate passes an uninitialized buffer to a user-provided Read implementation. The crate currently contains 4 occurrences of such cases.

Arbitrary Read implementations can read from the uninitialized buffer (memory exposure) and also can return incorrect number of bytes written to the buffer. Reading from uninitialized memory produces undefined values that can quickly invoke undefined behavior.

Record
RUSTSEC-2021-0085
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
binjs_io
crates.io
through 0.2.1 None known
binjs_io
crates.io
0.0.0-0 and later None known

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2021-45683 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Binjs Io Project Io, published January 3, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.23%, the 69th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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