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CVE-2021-28031

CRITICAL

CVE-2021-28031 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-415 vulnerability in scratchpad. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2021-28031 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.

move_elements can double-free objects on panic

Also known asGHSA-3qm2-rfqw-fmrwRUSTSEC-2021-0030
Published
Mar 5, 2021
Updated
Jul 8, 2026
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed

Blast Radius

1 pkg affected
🦀scratchpad

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Description

An issue was discovered in the scratchpad crate before 1.3.1 for Rust. The move_elements function can have a double-free upon a panic in a user-provided f function.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.ioscratchpadall versions1.3.1

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for scratchpad. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.

  2. Fix

    Update scratchpad to 1.3.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2021-28031 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2021-28031 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.

Tailored to CVE-2021-28031. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

An issue was discovered in the scratchpad crate before 1.3.1 for Rust. The move_elements function can have a double-free upon a panic in a user-provided f function.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is CVE-2021-28031 in your dependencies?

O3 detects CVE-2021-28031 across crates.io dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.