time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 23 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-121 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
time provides date and time handling in Rust. From 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47, 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. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| time-rs | time | 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 | 0.3.47 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | time (crates.io) | 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 | 0.3.47 | Patch available | GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc |
- time Vendortime-rs Affected 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 Fixed in 0.3.47 Patch available CNA
- time (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 Fixed in 0.3.47 Patch available GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:time_project:time:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 | Vulnerable | Time Project |
- cpe:2.3:a:time_project:time:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* Versions 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47 Vulnerable ·Time Project
Remediation
- Fix · CNA time (time-rs) Fixed in 0.3.47
- Fix · GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc time (crates.io) Fixed in 0.3.47 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Confidential Compute Attestation | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Lightspeed Core | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Discovery 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Update Service | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-25727
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc
References
Advisory 2
More Time Project Time vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-16056 Segmentation fault in Rust time crate CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-25727 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-25727 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-25727 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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