CVE-2024-58253: obfstr Type Confusion vulnerability

May 2, 2025 (updated May 5, 2025)

In the obfstr crate before 0.4.4 for Rust, the obfstr! argument type is not restricted to string slices, leading to invalid UTF-8 conversion that produces an invalid value.

References

github.com/CasualX/obfstr
github.com/CasualX/obfstr/compare/v0.4.3...v0.4.4
github.com/CasualX/obfstr/issues/60
github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2p5-q653-9j99
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58253

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