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TI-2023-30843 Aliases GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h

Insufficient covariance check makes self_cell unsound

Priority LOW 38Published · Updated

Key facts

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User interaction
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Impact type
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Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.

Summary

All public versions prior to `1.02` used an insufficient check to ensure that users correctly marked the dependent type as either `covariant` or `not_covariant`. This allowed users to mark a dependent as covariant even though its type was not covariant but invariant, for certain invariant types involving trait object lifetimes. One example for such a dependent type is `type Dependent<'a> = RefCell<Box<dyn fmt::Display + 'a>>`. Such a type allowed unsound usage in purely safe user code that leads to undefined behavior. The patched versions now produce a compile time error if such a type is marked as `covariant`.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed self_cell (crates.io): 0.10.3, 1.0.2

SSVC decision points

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—self_cell (crates.io)before 0.10.30.10.3Patch availableGHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h
—self_cell (crates.io)1.0.0 to before 1.0.21.0.2Patch availableGHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h
  • self_cell (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.10.3 Fixed in 0.10.3 Patch available GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h
  • self_cell (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 1.0.0 to before 1.0.2 Fixed in 1.0.2 Patch available GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h self_cell (crates.io) Fixed in 0.10.3 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h self_cell (crates.io) Fixed in 1.0.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-48m6-wm5p-rr6h

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