HIGH7.5

GHSA-qpgv-g792-wh6x

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in parse_duration

Details

An issue was discovered in the parse_duration crate through 2021-03-18 for Rust. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a duration string with a large exponent.

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Affected packages

crates.io/parse_duration

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29932[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/zeta12ti/parse_duration/issues/21[WEB]
https://github.com/zeta12ti/parse_duration[PACKAGE]
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0041.html[WEB]