CVE-2026-55406CWE-200CWE-416

Buffa: Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref

Medium · published July 16, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. Prior to 0.7.0, a soundness bug in the OwnedView<V> type allowed safe Rust code to trigger a use-after-free: the OwnedView::decode constructor transmuted a borrowed slice to &'static [u8], and the Deref implementation exposed the promoted 'static lifetime on borrowed view fields (such as &'static str and &'static [u8]) to callers, so the borrow checker permitted those references to outlive the OwnedView; once the OwnedView was dropped and its backing buffer freed, the references became dangling, enabling memory corruption, information disclosure of freed heap contents, and cross-thread misuse without any unsafe code in the calling application. This issue is fixed in version 0.7.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00193 · 8.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor; CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-07-16T15:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 15:54Z
    Buffa: Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref
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