CVE-2023-28448 — Versionize is a framework for version tolerant serializion/deserialization of Ru

Versionize is a framework for version tolerant serializion/deserialization of Rust data structures, designed for usecases that need fast deserialization times and minimal size overhead. An issue was discovered in the ‘Versionize::deserialize’ implementation provided by the ‘versi

01What is this vulnerability?

Versionize is a framework for version tolerant serializion/deserialization of Rust data structures, designed for usecases that need fast deserialization times and minimal size overhead. An issue was discovered in the ‘Versionize::deserialize’ implementation provided by the ‘versionize’ crate for ‘vmm_sys_utils::fam::FamStructWrapper', which can lead to out of bounds memory accesses. The impact…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
firecracker-microvm	versionize	< 0.1.10

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

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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: 2023-03-24T19:34:29.037Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-19T20:26:23.804Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/versionize/security/advisories/GHSA-8vxc-…
• github.com — https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/versionize/pull/53
• github.com — https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/versionize/commit/a57a051ba006cfa3b41a053…