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GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc

time vulnerable to stack exhaustion Denial of Service attack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-25727

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
crates.io time >= 0.3.6, < 0.3.47 0.3.47

Details

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### Impact When user-provided input is provided to any type that parses with the RFC 2822 format, a denial of service attack via stack exhaustion is possible. The attack relies on formally deprecated and rarely-used features that are part of the RFC 2822 format used in a malicious manner. Ordinary, non-malicious input will never encounter this scenario. ### Patches A limit to the depth of recursion was added in v0.3.47. From this version, an error will be returned rather than exhausting the stack. ### Workarounds Limiting the length of user input is the simplest way to avoid stack exhaustion, as the amount of the stack consumed would be at most a factor of the length of the input. Alternatively, avoiding the format altogether would also ensure that the vulnerability is not encountered. To do this, add ```toml disallowed-types = ["time::format_description::well_known::Rfc2822"] ``` to your `clippy.toml` file. This will trigger the `clippy::disallowed_types` lint, which is warn-by-default and can be explicitly denied.

References

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