# Use-after-free from a comparator that answers inconsistently

Advisory record · `GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9` · `RUSTSEC-2026-0409`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 4.0, no score published
- **Critical:** No
- **Published:** 24 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 26 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `skiplist` (crates.io): affected `>=0.0.0-0, <1.3.0`; fixed in `1.3.0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Versions of the skiplist crate before 1.3.0 can free a node that is still linked when a Comparator or Ord implementation gives inconsistent answers for the same pair of values during one mutating call, such as insert, take_first, take or remove. A later call then reads the freed memory. No unsafe code is needed: a safe Ord implementation with the default comparator can trigger it, but only if the comparison is stateful or non-deterministic. Upgrade to skiplist 1.3.0 or later, where such contradictions cause a panic before the collection is modified.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

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## Severity and exploitation

- Score not published, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from OSV

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** No score.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2026-0409)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9)
- [OSV: GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9)
- <https://crates.io/crates/skiplist>
- <https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0409.html>
- <https://github.com/JP-Ellis/rust-skiplist/pull/407>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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