CVE-2022-46176
Severity
5.9MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 64.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 11
Description
Cargo is a Rust package manager. The Rust Security Response WG was notified that Cargo did not perform SSH host key verification when cloning indexes and dependencies via SSH. An attacker could exploit this to perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022-46176. All Rust versions containing Cargo before 1.66.1 are vulnerable. Note that even if you don't explicitly use SSH for alternate registry indexes or crate dependencies, you might be affected by this…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 3.6