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CVE-2026-25727

time: time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 7, 2026

Updated · October 15, 2026

Description

A stack exhaustion flaw has been discovered in the rust time crate. When user-provided input is provided to any type that parses with the RFC 2822 format, a denial of service attack via stack exhaustion is possible. The attack relies on formally deprecated and rarely-used features that are part of the RFC 2822 format used in a malicious manner. Ordinary, non-malicious input will never encounter this scenario.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling