Is sha2 affected by CVE-2021-45696?

crates.io sha2 is affected in >=0.9.7 <0.9.8.

Is CVE-2021-45696 being exploited?

Not on the CISA KEV list. EPSS exploit probability is 0.8%.

high

CVE-2021-45696

Q: Is CVE-2021-45696 being exploited?

Not on the CISA KEV list. EPSS exploit probability is 0.8%.

crates.io · sha2

Summary

Miscomputed sha2 results when using AVX2 backend

Severity: high
EPSS: 0.8% (p52)
Also known as: GHSA-fc7x-2cmc-8j2g, GHSA-xpww-g9jx-hp8r, RUSTSEC-2021-0100
Published: 2022-06-17

References

https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes/pull/314
https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0100.html

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Sources: CISA KEV (public domain), OSV.dev & GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY-4.0), FIRST EPSS, NVD/CWE (public domain). Served live from the Stateward advisory database.