Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting fuser package, versions >=0.5.0 <0.16.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-FUSER-12671322
  • published17 Sept 2025
  • disclosed10 Sept 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2021

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade fuser to version 0.16.0 or higher.

Overview

fuser is a Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) for Rust

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource in the fuse_session_new process when the operation list argument is incorrectly passed as NULL. An attacker can cause uninitialized memory to be read and leaked by triggering the creation of a new session with an invalid operation list.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1