CVE-2022-36113
Severity
8.1HIGH
EPSS
8.9%
top 7.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 14
Latest updateSep 16
Description
Cargo is a package manager for the rust programming language. After a package is downloaded, Cargo extracts its source code in the ~/.cargo folder on disk, making it available to the Rust projects it builds. To record when an extraction is successful, Cargo writes "ok" to the .cargo-ok file at the root of the extracted source code once it extracted all the files. It was discovered that Cargo allowed packages to contain a .cargo-ok symbolic link, which Cargo would extract. Then, when Cargo attemp…
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