BiteApplication · Bite Project
CVE-2020-36511
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedAn issue was discovered in the bite crate through 2020-12-31 for Rust. read::BiteReadExpandedExt::read_framed_max may read from uninitialized memory locations.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe bite Rust crate's read::BiteReadExpandedExt::read_framed_max function may read from uninitialized memory locations, potentially exposing sensitive data from memory or causing unpredictable behavior. This is a memory safety vulnerability where the buffer used for reading is not properly initialized before the read operation.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
BiteApplication
<= 0.0.5CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the bite crate in your project dependenciesSearch your Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock files for 'bite' as a direct or transitive dependencyAffected if The bite crate appears as a dependency in your project's dependency tree
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Identify the installed bite crate versionRun 'cargo tree -p bite' or inspect the version specified in Cargo.lock under the bite package entryAffected if The version is 0.0.5 or lower
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Check for usage of the vulnerable moduleSearch your codebase for 'use bite::read::BiteReadExpandedExt' or 'bite::read' importsAffected if The read module from bite is imported and used in your code
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Verify the vulnerable function is calledSearch for calls to 'read_framed_max' method in your source filesAffected if Your code calls the read_framed_max function from BiteReadExpandedExt
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Confirm the read buffer initialization behaviorReview the bite crate source code (if vendored) or documentation for the read_framed_max function implementationAffected if The function uses an uninitialized buffer for reading data
You are affected if the bite crate version 0.0.5 or lower is a dependency and your code uses the read::BiteReadExpandedExt::read_framed_max function from the bite crate.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scopedUpdate to a patched version of the bite crate that properly initializes memory before read operations, or replace the crate with a secure alternative that handles memory initialization correctly.
bite version 0.0.6
- Run `cargo update bite` or specify version 0.0.6 in your Cargo.toml
- After updating, run `cargo build` to recompile your project with the fixed crate version
- Verify the update by checking the installed bite version with `cargo tree | grep bite`
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Bite
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation3.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2020-36511 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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