pypi package report

Is candid safe?

1 known vulnerability, worst severity HIGH.

cvss
7.5

how bad it is if exploited, out of 10

epss
1.2%

chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

xyz score
3.4

CyberXYZ composite, out of 10

fig. 01 — GHSA-7787-p7x6-fq3j, the advisory selected below

// advisories

GHSA-7787-p7x6-fq3j

HIGHCVE-2023-6245

The Candid library causes a Denial of Service while parsing a specially crafted payload with empty data type. For example, if the payload is record { ; empty } and the canister interface expects record { } then the rust candid decoder treats empty as an extra field required by the type. The problem with type empty is that the candid rust library wrongly categorizes empty as a recoverable error

Affected
>=0.9.0, <0.9.10
Fixed in
0.9.10
Published
2023-12-08
Source
github

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// dependencies

0 direct

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// ai model usage

No published models are known to use this package.

Checked 2026-09-22 at 00:45 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2023-12-08. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.

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