Medium
Security advisory
In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-20004
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.
osv:CVE-2017-20004
Complete source record
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