GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc
time vulnerable to stack exhaustion Denial of Service attack
Details
### Impact
When user-provided input is provided to any type that parses with the RFC 2822 format, a denial of service attack via stack exhaustion is possible. The attack relies on formally deprecated and rarely-used features that are part of the RFC 2822 format used in a malicious manner. Ordinary, non-malicious input will never encounter this scenario.
### Patches
A limit to the depth of recursion was added in v0.3.47. From this version, an error will be returned rather than exhausting the stack.
### Workarounds
Limiting the length of user input is the simplest way to avoid stack exhaustion, as the amount of the stack consumed would be at most a factor of the length of the input.
Alternatively, avoiding the format altogether would also ensure that the vulnerability is not encountered. To do this, add
```toml disallowed-types = ["time::format_description::well_known::Rfc2822"] ```
to your `clippy.toml` file. This will trigger the `clippy::disallowed_types` lint, which is warn-by-default and can be explicitly denied.
Are you affected?
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Affected packages
0.3.6Fixed in: 0.3.47Upgrade time to 0.3.47 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
References
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/security/advisories/GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25727[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/commit/1c63dc7985b8fa26bd8c689423cc56b7a03841ee[WEB]
- https://github.com/time-rs/time[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0347-2026-02-05[WEB]
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/releases/tag/v0.3.47[WEB]
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0009.html[WEB]