Advisory record · GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9

Use-after-free from a comparator that answers inconsistently

CVSS 4.0, no score published

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.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
skiplistcrates.io>=0.0.0-0, <1.3.01.3.0
Identifiers
GHSA-cc53-p78w-23w9 · RUSTSEC-2026-0409
Published
24 Oct 2026
Updated
26 Oct 2026

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.

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
Not published None 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 OSV
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS No score.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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