Insecure Preserved Inherited Permissions Affecting cargo1.71 package, versions <1.71.1-150400.9.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-CARGO171-5836906
  • published10 Aug 2023
  • disclosed8 Aug 2023

Introduced: 8 Aug 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 cargo1.71 to version 1.71.1-150400.9.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cargo1.71 package and not the cargo1.71 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 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 Base Scores

version 3.1