eyre: Parts of Report are dropped as the wrong type during downcast
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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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
In affected versions, after a `Report` is constructed using `wrap_err` or `wrap_err_with` to attach a message of type `D` onto an error of type `E`, then using `downcast` to recover ownership of either the value of type `D` or the value of type `E`, one of two things can go wrong: - If downcasting to `E`, there remains a value of type `D` to be dropped. It is incorrectly "dropped" by running `E`'s drop behavior, rather than `D`'s. For example if `D` is `&str` and `E` is `std::io::Error`, there would be a call of `std::io::Error::drop` in which the reference received by the `Drop` impl does not refer to a valid value of type `std::io::Error`, but instead to `&str`. - If downcasting to `D`, there remains a value of type `E` to be dropped. When `D` and `E` do not happen to be the same size, `E`'s drop behavior is incorrectly executed in the wrong location. The reference received by the `Drop` impl may point left or right of the real `E` value that is meant to be getting dropped. In both cases, when the `Report` contains an error `E` that has nontrivial drop behavior, the most likely outcome is memory corruption. When the `Report` contains an error `E` that has trivial drop behavior (for example a `Utf8Error`) but where `D` has nontrivial drop behavior (such as `String`), the most likely outcome is that downcasting to `E` would leak `D`.
Why it matters now
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | eyre (crates.io) | 0.6.9 to before 0.6.12 | 0.6.12 | Patch available | GHSA-4v52-7q2x-v4xj |
- eyre (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.6.9 to before 0.6.12 Fixed in 0.6.12 Patch available GHSA-4v52-7q2x-v4xj
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-4v52-7q2x-v4xj eyre (crates.io) Fixed in 0.6.12 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-4v52-7q2x-v4xj
References
Sources
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