Out-of-bounds Read Affecting rkyv package, versions >=0.7.0-pre.2 <0.8.17
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- published10 Aug 2026
- disclosed13 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 13 May 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade rkyv to version 0.8.17 or higher.
Overview
rkyv is a zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read due to improper validation of shared pointers in archives containing Rc or Arc. An attacker can cause out-of-bounds reads by crafting archives where multiple pointers share a data address but have different metadata, such as forged slice lengths, allowing safe indexing operations to access memory outside the intended bounds.