Use After Free Affecting dcrypt-api package, versions <2.0.0
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- published29 Aug 2026
- disclosed9 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 9 Aug 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade dcrypt-api to version 2.0.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the ErrorRegistry process when the default std feature is enabled. An attacker can cause mismatched deallocation, type confusion, and use-after-free by exploiting unchecked type casts, erasure of stored values to raw pointers, and concurrent operations that may free a value while it is being cloned.