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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-45686

CVE-2021-45686

Description

An issue was discovered in the csv-sniffer crate through 2021-01-05 for Rust. preamble_skipcount may read from uninitialized memory locations.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
csv-sniffercrates.io	< 0.2.0	0.2.0

Affected products

2

csv-sniffer/csv-snifferdescription
ghsa-coords
pkg:cargo/csv-sniffer
Range: < 0.2.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

6

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9783-42pm-x5jqghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45686ghsaADVISORY
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/csv-sniffer/RUSTSEC-2021-0088.mdnvdThird Party AdvisoryWEB
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0088.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryWEB
github.com/jblondin/csv-sniffer/issues/1ghsaWEB
github.com/jblondin/csv-sniffer/pull/2ghsaWEB

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