Description
Diesel-async uses the mysql-async crate for interacting with Mysql compatible databases. This library already provides access to deserialized data for date/time releated types. Diesel-async then translated these deserialized data back to their serialized binary representation to hook into diesels desearialization framework.
While serializing these data/time values again Diesel-async relied on a cast between the `MysqlTime` `#[repr(C)]` struct (defined by Diesel) and a byte array. As this cast exposes padding bytes contained in this struct, this is undefined behaviour.
This vulnerability affects any user deserializing date/time values using the Mysql backend and diesel-async.
This affects any usage of the following functions with a `AsyncMysqlConnection` provided by diesel-async:
* `diesel::serialize::FromSql<Timestamp, Mysql>`
* `diesel::serialize::FromSql<Time, Mysql>`
* `diesel::serialize::FromSql<Date, Mysql>`
* `diesel::serialize::FromSql<DateTime, Mysql>`
## Mitigation
The preferred mitigation to the outlined problem is to update to Diesel-async version 0.9.0 or newer, which includes fixes for the problem.
## Resolution
Diesel-async now just calls a safe serialization method provided by Diesel 2.3.9 and newer
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | diesel-async | >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.9.0 | 0.9.0 | RUSTSEC-2026-0138 |