An issue was discovered in the rand_core crate before 0.4.2 for Rust. Casting of byte slices to integer slices mishandles alignment constraints.
CVE-2020-25576
This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.6%, top 27% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 72.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 14, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 7, 2026RUSTSEC-2019-0035: rand_core: Unaligned memory access › RustSec Advisory Database
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0035.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2020-25576(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
crates.io(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| rand_core | — | 0.4.2 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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