9.8

CVE-2021-29937: telemetry_project telemetry Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesCGA-59ch-gwx4-fwvvCGA-65cc-vxgv-98q4CGA-8q48-556h-wm2f
Published 01-04-2021Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-29937 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in telemetry_project telemetry. EPSS estimates a 1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.36%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-CFX3-3H8W-C764

Timeline

  1. 01-04-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in the telemetry crate through 2021-02-17 for Rust. There is a drop of uninitialized memory if a value.clone() call panics within misc::vec_with_size().

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

71%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.36% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.36%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (rustsec.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard1 product
  • zedAll versions (No fix recorded)
Crates.Io1 product
  • telemetry< 0.1.3 | ≥ 0.0.0-0 (No fix recorded)
Telemetry_project1 product
Wolfi1 product
  • zedAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

6 links