AIKIDO-2025-10701
nixl is vulnerable to Use After Free
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Low Risk
This Affects:
nixlTL;DR
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to a Use-After-Free after disconnect due to improper management of the transfer request ownership. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability by triggering an error condition that causes the agent to prematurely free a request object, resulting in the client application using a dangling pointer. This use of a freed resource could result in a crash or data corruption.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
nixl is vulnerable to Use After Free in versions 0.1.0 - 0.6.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the nixl library to the patch version.
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SOC 2Compliant
ISO 27001Compliant