CVE-2019-15541 — rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

01What is this vulnerability?

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-08-26T11:49:39.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T00:49:13.730Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ctz/rustls/compare/cd66549...17ee52c
• github.com — https://github.com/ctz/rustls/commit/a93ee1abd2ab19ebe4bf9d684d56637ee54a6074
• github.com — https://github.com/ctz/rustls/issues/285