RUSTSEC-2026-0391 Data from an abandoned stream leaks into the next stream on a reused context
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
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.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
zstd crates.io | From 0.13.2 | 0.14.3 |
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.