# CVE-2024-27284: cassandra-rs non-idiomatic use of iterators leads to use after free

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2024-0017, GHSA-X9XC-63HG-VCFQ
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.0.0
- Published: 2024-02-28 · Updated: 2024-08-12

## Affected

- Metaswitch cassandra-rs: fixed in 3.0.0
- cassandra-cpp (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 3.0.0
- cassandra-cpp (crates.io): fixed in 3.0.0

## Description

cassandra-rs is a Cassandra (CQL) driver for Rust. Code that attempts to use an item (e.g., a row) returned by an iterator after the iterator has advanced to the next item will be accessing freed memory and experience undefined behaviour. The problem has been fixed in version 3.0.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Metaswitch cassandra-rs, cassandra-cpp, upgrade to a fixed version (3.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Metaswitch/cassandra-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-x9xc-63hg-vcfq
- https://github.com/Metaswitch/cassandra-rs/commit/ae054dc8044eac9c2c7ae2b1ab154b53ca7f8df7

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