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🛡️ CVE-2021-28031 — scratchpad

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-415 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

move_elements can double-free objects on panic

Affected versions of scratchpad used ptr::read to read elements while calling a user provided function f on them. Since the pointer read duplicates ownership, a panic inside the user provided f function could cause a double free when unwinding.

The flaw was fixed in commit 891561bea by removing the unsafe block and using a plain iterator.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-28031 is classified as CWE-415: Double Free. The same allocation is released twice, corrupting allocator bookkeeping.

Affected software

CVE-2021-28031 is recorded against 1 package.

  • scratchpad

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
rustsec.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

scratchpad has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-415: Double Free) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-415
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
scratchpad — —

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