GHSA-w65j-g6c7-g3m4MediumDisclosed before NVD

Multiple memory safety issues in actix-web

Published
August 25, 2021
Last Modified
June 9, 2026

📋 Description

Affected versions contain multiple memory safety issues, such as:

  • Unsoundly coercing immutable references to mutable references
  • Unsoundly extending lifetimes of strings
  • Adding the Send marker trait to objects that cannot be safely sent between threads

This may result in a variety of memory corruption scenarios, most likely use-after-free.

A signficant refactoring effort has been conducted to resolve these issues.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/actix-web:< 0.7.19

🔗 References (3)