CVE-2020-35898: Use after free in actix-utils

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the actix-utils crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. The Cell implementation allows obtaining more than one mutable reference to the same data.

References

github.com/actix/actix-net
github.com/actix/actix-net/issues/160
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhw2-pqhf-vmx2
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35898
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0045.html

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