CVE-2020-36512

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-36512 · Published 27/12/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-36512 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting buffoon (buffoon project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
buffoon buffoon_project	`= 0.5.0`	No fix yet

An issue was discovered in the buffoon crate through 2020-12-31 for Rust. InputStream::read_exact may read from uninitialized memory locations.

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