Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 30
Latest updateMay 24
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 …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 3.4