Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMay 13
Description
The Rust Programming Language rustdoc version Between 0.8 and 1.27.0 contains a CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in rustdoc plugins that can result in local code execution as a different user. This attack appear to be exploitable via using the --plugin flag without the --plugin-path flag. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.27.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
2💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-1000622 rust: rustdoc loads plugins from world writable directory allowing for arbitrary code execution [fedora-all]↗2018-07-08
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-1000622 rust: rustdoc loads plugins from world writable directory allowing for arbitrary code execution [epel-7]↗2018-07-08
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-1000622 rust: rustdoc loads plugins from world writable directory allowing for arbitrary code execution↗2018-07-02