time affected by a stack exhaustion denial of service attack
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
40 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/25xxx/CVE-2026-25727.json
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0347-2026-02-05
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/commit/1c63dc7985b8fa26bd8c689423cc56b7a03841ee
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/releases/tag/v0.3.47
- https://github.com/time-rs/time/security/advisories/GHSA-r6v5-fh4h-64xc
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25727