CVE-2021-45706

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2021-45706 · Published 27/12/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-45706 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting zeroize derive (zeroize derive project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.1.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
zeroize derive zeroize_derive_project	`< 1.1.1`	`1.1.1`

An issue was discovered in the zeroize_derive crate before 1.1.1 for Rust. Dropped memory is not zeroed out for an enum.

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