CVE-2024-9979

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

15/10/2024

Last modified:

16/10/2024

Description

A flaw was found in PyO3. This vulnerability causes a use-after-free issue, potentially leading to memory corruption or crashes via unsound borrowing from weak Python references.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9979
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318646
https://crates.io/crates/pyo3
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4590
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0378.html