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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-35858

An issue was discovered in the prost crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There is stack consumption via a crafted message, causing a denial of service (e.g., x86) or possibly remote code execution (e.g., ARM).

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1 Nov 2026, 05:13 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-35858

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Dec 2020, 10:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in the prost crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There is stack consumption via a crafted message, causing a denial of service (e.g., x86) or possibly remote code execution (e.g., ARM).

osv:CVE-2020-35858
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-35858",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the prost crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There is stack consumption via a crafted message, causing a denial of service (e.g., x86) or possibly remote code execution (e.g., ARM).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-35858",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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        "RUSTSEC-2020-0002"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                },
                {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.751610180Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431431,
  "published_at": "2020-12-31T10:15:14.83+00:00"
}