oneshot has potential Use After Free when used asynchronouslyGHSA-rvr2-r3pv-5m4p
Fix: rustsec/advisory-db#2600GHSA-rvr2-r3pv-5m4p is a security vulnerability in oneshot. A fix is available for oneshot — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
There is a race condition that can lead to a use-after-free if a oneshot::Receiver is polled but then dropped instead of polled to completion. This could happen if the receiver future was cancelled while receiving, for example by being wrapped in a timeout future or similar.
When the Receiver is polled (Future::poll) it writes a waker to the channel and sets it to the RECEIVING state. If the Receiver was then dropped (instead of polled to completion), the Drop implementation on Receiver unconditionally swapped the channel state to DISCONNECTED and only after doing so it read back its waker from the heap allocation and dropped it. The problem is that the DISCONNECTED state could be observed by the Sender, which would lead to it deallocating the channel heap memory. If the Sender manage to free the channel before the Receiver managed to proceed to dropping the waker, then the Receiver would read from the freed channel memory (Use After Free).
The fix was submitted in https://github.com/faern/oneshot/pull/74 and published as part of oneshot version 0.1.12.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🦀crates.io | oneshot | all versions | 0.1.12cargo update -p oneshot --precise 0.1.12 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for oneshot, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update oneshot to 0.1.12 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-rvr2-r3pv-5m4p is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-rvr2-r3pv-5m4p in your dependencies?
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