Critical
rust-failure — security advisory
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
- Products
- rust-failure
- Affected versions
- 0.1.7-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25575
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25575
rust-failure
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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