CVE-2020-36471
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.28%Generators can cause data races if non-Send types are used in their generator functions
Published: 8/25/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in the generator crate before 0.7.0 for Rust. It does not ensure that a function (for yielding values) has Send bounds.
Affected packages (3)
- crates.io/generatorfrom 0, < 0.7.0
- crates.io/generator>= 0.0.0-0, < 0.7.0
- Debian/rust-generatorfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36471
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36471
- PATCHhttps://crates.io/crates/generator
- PATCHhttps://github.com/Xudong-Huang/generator-rs
- WEBhttps://github.com/Xudong-Huang/generator-rs/commit/f7d120a3b724d06a7b623d0a4306acf8f78cb4f0
- WEBhttps://github.com/Xudong-Huang/generator-rs/issues/27
- WEBhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/generator/RUSTSEC-2020-0151.md
- WEBhttps://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0151.html