CVE-2021-45683
'Read' on uninitialized memory may cause UB
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
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 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV: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 Critical
CVSS: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 Critical
CVSS: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
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-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.
References
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0085.html
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/binjs_io/RUSTSEC-2021-0085.md
github.com/binast/binjs-ref/issues/460
github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6px-4grw-hrjr
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45683
github.com/advisories/GHSA-cw4j-cf6c-mmfv
github.com/binast/binjs-ref
github.com/Yoric/binjs-ref
crates.io/crates/binjs_io