Security advisory

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  "id": "5e7bc0f2343bbc10e08f33c45670722c871a5fd851f33faf4790b65ec11d5d2b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-35896",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-35896",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the ws crate through 2020-09-25 for Rust. The outgoing buffer is not properly limited, leading to a remote memory-consumption attack.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-35896",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-35896",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-35896",
        "GHSA-rh7x-ppxx-p34c",
        "RUSTSEC-2020-0043"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/housleyjk/ws-rs",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a2e05e784bea72ded96180d83bf3e52c278d98ba"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ws-rs_project:ws-rs:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.9.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.9.1",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.1",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.9",
            "v0.7.8",
            "v0.7.7",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.1",
            "v0.4.4",
            "v0.4.3",
            "v0.4.2",
            "v0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.1",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-35896.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.458271614Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0043.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-35896",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429155,
  "published_at": "2020-12-31T10:15:17.097+00:00"
}