CVE-2019-16760

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency

State
Published
Severity
4.6 Medium
Published
Sep 30, 2019
Updated
Aug 5, 2024
Reserved
Sep 24, 2019

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Description

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency if your package.toml file uses the `package` configuration key. Usage of the `package` key to rename dependencies in `Cargo.toml` is ignored in Rust 1.25.0 and prior. When Rust 1.25.0 and prior is used Cargo may download the wrong dependency, which could be squatted on crates.io to be a malicious package. This not only affects manifests that you write locally yourself, but also manifests published to crates.io. Rust 1.0.0 through Rust 1.25.0 is affected by this advisory because Cargo will ignore the `package` key in manifests. Rust 1.26.0 through Rust 1.30.0 are not affected and typically will emit an error because the `package` key is unstable. Rust 1.31.0 and after are not affected because Cargo understands the `package` key. Users of the affected versions are strongly encouraged to update their compiler to the latest available one. Preventing this issue from happening requires updating your compiler to be either Rust 1.26.0 or newer. There will be no point release for Rust versions prior to 1.26.0. Users of Rust 1.19.0 to Rust 1.25.0 can instead apply linked patches to mitigate the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cargorust
  • 1.0.0 to before 1.26.0Affected

References

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