CVE-2020-35916
Mutable reference with immutable provenance in image
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- 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 image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
CVE-2020-35916- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 Low
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-400
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
CVE-2020-35916- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-1669 No score
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
EUVD-2021-1669- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9wgh-vjj7-7433
Mutable reference with immutable provenance in image
A mutable reference to a struct was constructed by dereferencing a pointer obtained from slice::as_ptr. Instead, slice::as_mut_ptr should have been called on the mutable slice argument. The former performs an implicit reborrow as an immutable shared reference which does not allow writing through the derived pointer.
- Record
GHSA-9wgh-vjj7-7433- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-400
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
CVE-2020-35916- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2020-35916
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35916- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-9wgh-vjj7-7433
Mutable reference with immutable provenance in image
A mutable reference to a struct was constructed by dereferencing a pointer obtained from slice::as_ptr. Instead, slice::as_mut_ptr should have been called on the mutable slice argument. The former performs an implicit reborrow as an immutable shared reference which does not allow writing through the derived pointer.
- Record
GHSA-9wgh-vjj7-7433- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-400
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVRUSTSEC-2020-0073
Mutable reference with immutable provenance
A mutable reference to a struct was constructed by dereferencing a pointer
obtained from slice::as_ptr. Instead, slice::as_mut_ptr should have been
called on the mutable slice argument. The former performs an implicit reborrow
as an immutable shared reference which does not allow writing through the
derived pointer.
There is no evidence for miscompilation, exploitable or otherwise, caused by this bug. Further investigation on Zulip suggests that the unoptimized generated LLVM IR does not contain any UB itself, effectively mitigating further effects.
- Record
RUSTSEC-2020-0073- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2020-35916
An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-35916- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
imagecrates.io |
before 0.23.12 | 0.23.12 |
rust-imageDebian:12 |
before 0.23.14-1 | 0.23.14-1 |
rust-imageDebian:13 |
before 0.23.14-1 | 0.23.14-1 |
rust-imageDebian:14 |
before 0.23.14-1 | 0.23.14-1 |
imagecrates.io |
0.0.0-0 up to 0.23.12 | 0.23.12 |
rust-imageUbuntu:24.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 0.24.7-2 |
None known |
rust-imageUbuntu:25.10 |
All versions, plus listed versions 0.25.5-30.25.6-2ubuntu1 |
None known |
rust-imageUbuntu:26.10 |
All versions, plus listed versions 0.25.8-30.25.10-2 |
None known |
rust-imageUbuntu:26.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 0.25.6-2ubuntu10.25.6-30.25.8-10.25.8-20.25.8-3 |
None known |
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-2020-35916 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Image-rs Image, published November 12, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.39%, the 33rd percentile. Fixed in image 0.23.12.