CVE-2026-25727

time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack

Published Feb 6, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
time provides date and time handling in Rust. From 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47, 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. A limit to the depth of recursion was added in v0.3.47. From this version, an error will be returned rather than exhausting the stack.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc time vulnerable to stack exhaustion Denial of Service attack
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Time Project
Time Project time
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:time_project:time:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
Vendors & Products Time Project
Time Project time
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Time-rs
Time-rs time
Vendors & Products Time-rs
Time-rs time
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description time provides date and time handling in Rust. From 0.3.6 to before 0.3.47, 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. A limit to the depth of recursion was added in v0.3.47. From this version, an error will be returned rather than exhausting the stack.
Title time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack
Weaknesses CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Feb 6, 2026, 8:22 PM
Reserved
Feb 5, 2026, 4:48 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Feb 6, 2026, 8:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:25 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 6, 2026, 7:20 PM