# CVE-2023-53156: The transpose crate before 0.2.3 for Rust allows an integer overflow via input\_width and input\_height arguments.

- Also known as: GHSA-5GMM-6M36-R7JH, RUSTSEC-2023-0080
- Severity: CVSS 4.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.2.3
- Published: 2025-07-27 · Updated: 2025-07-28

## Affected

- ejmahler transpose: fixed in 0.2.3
- transpose (crates.io): from 0.1.0, fixed in 0.2.3
- transpose (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 0.2.3

## Description

The transpose crate before 0.2.3 for Rust allows an integer overflow via input_width and input_height arguments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ejmahler transpose, transpose, upgrade to a fixed version (0.2.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0080.html
- https://github.com/ejmahler/transpose/issues/11
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh
- https://crates.io/crates/transpose

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