TI-2020-18341 Aliases CVE-2020-35898 GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2

An issue was discovered in the actix-utils crate before 2.0.0 for Rust.

MEDIUM 42CWE-416Published 2020-12-31 · Updated 2024-08-04

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

An issue was discovered in the actix-utils crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. The Cell implementation allows obtaining more than one mutable reference to the same data.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01428 73rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed actix-utils (crates.io): 2.0.0

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	actix-utils (crates.io)	before 2.0.0	2.0.0	Patch available	GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
actix-utils (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 2.0.0 Fixed in 2.0.0 Patch available GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:actix:actix-utils::::::rust::*	before 2.0.0	Vulnerable	actix

cpe:2.3:a:actix:actix-utils:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* Versions before 2.0.0 Vulnerable ·actix

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2 actix-utils (crates.io) Fixed in 2.0.0 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-35898
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2

References

Exploit 1

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0045.html

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35898

Other 3

Sources

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