CVE-2026-55406

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

Published Jul 16, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9pwq-gcrx-wghh Buffa has a Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref
History
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First Time appeared Anthropics
Anthropics buffa
Vendors & Products Anthropics
Anthropics buffa
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Metrics ssvc

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title Buffa: Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-416
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.9, '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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 16, 2026, 4:47 PM
Reserved
Jun 16, 2026, 9:48 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jul 16, 2026, 5:16 PM
Modified
Oct 24, 2026, 8:10 PM