CVE-2020-36213

mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.37% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

An issue was discovered in the abi_stable crate before 0.9.1 for Rust. A retain call can create an invalid UTF-8 string, violating soundness.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
abi stable project abi stable< 0.9.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:abi_stable_project:abi_stable:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
crates.io abi_stable< 0.9.1osvUSpkg:cargo/abi_stable
crates.io abi_stable0.0.0-0 → 0.9.1osvUSpkg:cargo/abi_stable

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-vq23-5h4f-vwpvUpdate unsound DrainFilter and RString::retain2021-08-25ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the abi_stable crate before 0.9.1 for Rust. DrainFilter lacks soundness because of a double drop.
GHSA-wqxc-qrq4-w5v4Update unsound DrainFilter and RString::retain2021-08-25ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the abi_stable crate before 0.9.1 for Rust. A retain call can create an invalid UTF-8 string, violating soundness.
CVE-2020-362122021-01-26vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the abi_stable crate before 0.9.1 for Rust. DrainFilter lacks soundness because of a double drop.
RUSTSEC-2020-0105Update unsound DrainFilter and RString::retain2020-12-21vendor · osvUS
Affected versions of this crate contained code from the Rust standard library that contained soundness bugs rust-lang/rust#60977 (double drop) & rust-lang/rust#78498 (create invalid utf-8 string). The flaw was corrected in v0.9.1 by making a similar fix to the one made in the Rust standard library.

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2021-01-26modified 2026-06-17

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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