🛡️ CVE-2022-23639 — crossbeam

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-362 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
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Description

crossbeam-utils Unsoundness of AtomicCell<{i,u}64> arithmetics on 32-bit targets that support Atomic{I,U}64

Impact

The affected versions of this crate incorrectly assumed that the alignment of {i,u}64 was always the same as Atomic{I,U}64.

However, the alignment of {i,u}64 on a 32-bit target can be smaller than Atomic{I,U}64.

This can cause the following problems:

  • Unaligned memory accesses
  • Data race

Crates using fetch_* methods with AtomicCell<{i,u}64> are affected by this issue.

32-bit targets without Atomic{I,U}64 and 64-bit targets are not affected by this issue.

32-bit targets with Atomic{I,U}64 and {i,u}64 have the same alignment are also not affected by this issue.

The following is a complete list of the builtin targets that may be affected. (last update: nightly-2022-02-11)

  • armv7-apple-ios (tier 3)
  • armv7s-apple-ios (tier 3)
  • i386-apple-ios (tier 3)
  • i586-unknown-linux-gnu
  • i586-unknown-linux-musl
  • i686-apple-darwin (tier 3)
  • i686-linux-android
  • i686-unknown-freebsd
  • i686-unknown-haiku (tier 3)
  • i686-unknown-linux-gnu
  • i686-unknown-linux-musl
  • i686-unknown-netbsd (tier 3)
  • i686-unknown-openbsd (tier 3)
  • i686-wrs-vxworks (tier 3)

([script to get list](https://gist.github.com/taiki-e/3c7891e8c5f5e0cbcb44d7396aabfe10))

Patches

This has been fixed in crossbeam-utils 0.8.7.

Affected 0.8.x releases have been yanked.

References

https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/pull/781

License

This advisory is in the public domain.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, 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.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-23639 is classified as CWE-362: Race Condition. Concurrent operations share state without proper synchronisation, so timing decides whether the result is correct.

Affected software

CVE-2022-23639 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • crossbeam (fixed in 0.8.7)
  • crossbeam-utils

Timeline and source

Published on 15 February 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2022-23639 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-362
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-02-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
crossbeam — 0.8.7
crossbeam-utils — —

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