Rustls
CVE-2024-11738
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A10:2025 - Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Exception handling completeness
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
A flaw was found in Rustls 0.23.13 and related APIs. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in cargo
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-248. A flaw was found in Rustls 0.23.13 and related APIs. This vulnerability allows denial of service (panic) via a fragmented TLS ClientHello message. Affected products include: Rustls Project Rustls.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
A flaw was found in Rustls 0.23.13 and related APIs. This vulnerability allows denial of service (panic) via a fragmented TLS ClientHello message.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of servic
rustls 0.23.13 through 0.23.44 accepts TLS 1.3 handshake messages delivered at the wrong encryption level when a key-cha
rustls clients before 0.23.46 can be steered into classical-only TLS 1.3 key exchange by an unauthenticated network atta
Memory exhaustion in rustls can abort Brotli-enabled clients or client-authenticating servers when a malicious peer send
Information disclosure in rustls 0.23.44 and 0.23.45 causes application data that a client buffers before the TLS handsh
Rustls before 0.23.46 and the 0.24.0-dev.1 pre-release can expose TLS 1.2 master secrets or TLS 1.3 resumption PSKs when
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