Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions Affecting rust package, versions <1.71.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-RUST-8485807
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed4 Aug 2023

Introduced: 4 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-38497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-278  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 rust to version 1.71.1-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 downloads the Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2, bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround, configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in ~/.cargo.

CVSS Scores

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