Description
An issue was discovered in the actix-web crate before 0.7.15 for Rust. It can unsoundly coerce an immutable reference into a mutable reference, leading to memory corruption.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | rust-actix-derive | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | actix-web | < 0.7.19 | 0.7.19 | GHSA-7x36-h62w-vw65 |
| crates.io | actix-web | >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.7.20-0 | 0.7.20-0 | RUSTSEC-2018-0019 |