RUSTSEC-2026-0391 Data from an abandoned stream leaks into the next stream on a reused context

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What is RUSTSEC-2026-0391?

RUSTSEC-2026-0391 is a vulnerability in zstd, published on 16 Oct 2026.

Official description

The with_context constructors of the stream encoders and decoders used the borrowed context as it was. When a stream was abandoned on a context, for example an encoder dropped before finish() after an error, whatever it left there was carried into the next stream: the input buffered by the previous encoder (up to 128 KiB, or all of it with zstdmt) became the start of the next frame, and a decoder returned undelivered output of the previous stream.

An application reusing one context for data that must stay separate, such as different users' requests, could disclose one user's plaintext to another. Whoever supplies the data can cause the abandonment with invalid input.

The flaw was corrected by resetting the context's session in with_context.

Which versions are affected by RUSTSEC-2026-0391?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including zstd.

PackageAffectedFixed in
zstd crates.ioFrom 0.13.20.14.3

How do I fix RUSTSEC-2026-0391?

Upgrade zstd to 0.14.3 or later.

Is RUSTSEC-2026-0391 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of RUSTSEC-2026-0391 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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