CVE-2019-15552

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2019-15552 · Published 26/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-15552 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting libflate (libflate project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.1.25 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libflate libflate_project	`≥ 0.1.14, < 0.1.25`	`0.1.25`

An issue was discovered in the libflate crate before 0.1.25 for Rust. MultiDecoder::read has a use-after-free, leading to arbitrary code execution.

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