Download of Code Without Integrity Check Affecting rust package, versions <1.26.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-RUST-8485744
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed30 Sept 2019

Introduced: 30 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16760  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-16  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 rust to version 1.26.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust package and not the rust package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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