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AIKIDO-2026-10089

rkyv is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference

NULL Pointer Dereference Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Jan 26, 2026

68

Medium Risk

This Affects:

RUSTrkyv
0.0.1 - 0.7.45
Fixed in 0.7.46
0.8.0 - 0.8.12
Fixed in 0.8.13
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to a null pointer dereference caused by improper handling of null values returned by the allocator in the SharedPointer::alloc process. An attacker can trigger an out-of-memory condition during shared pointer allocation, leading to dereferencing a null pointer through safe deserialization APIs and resulting in a crash or potentially arbitrary code execution.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

rkyv is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in versions 0.0.1 - 0.7.45 and 0.8.0 - 0.8.12.

How to fix this

Upgrade the rkyv library to the patch version.