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CVE-2026-55406
Published:July 16, 2026
Updated:August 04, 2026
Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. Prior to 0.7.0, a soundness bug in the OwnedView<V> type allowed safe Rust code to trigger a use-after-free: the OwnedView::decode constructor transmuted a borrowed slice to &'static [u8], and the Deref implementation exposed the promoted 'static lifetime on borrowed view fields (such as &'static str and &'static [u8]) to callers, so the borrow checker permitted those references to outlive the OwnedView; once the OwnedView was dropped and its backing buffer freed, the references became dangling, enabling memory corruption, information disclosure of freed heap contents, and cross-thread misuse without any unsafe code in the calling application. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.0.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/anthropics/buffa.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v0.7.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.7.0
buffa (RUST):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <0.7.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.7.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
5.9
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.7
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Use After Free
EPSS
Base Score:
0.13