An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010.
References:- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25575
- https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
- https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes/pull/91
- https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/blob/main/crates/failure/RUSTSEC-2019-0036.md
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0036.html
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
- https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3