Medium: rust

Issue Overview:

Cargo downloads a Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Starting in Rust 1.60.0 and prior to 1.72, Cargo did not escape Cargo feature names when including them in the report generated by cargo build --timings. A malicious package included as a dependency may inject nearly arbitrary HTML here, potentially leading to cross-site scripting if the report is subsequently uploaded somewhere. The vulnerability affects users relying on dependencies from git, local paths, or alternative registries. Users who solely depend on crates.io are unaffected.

Rust 1.60.0 introduced cargo build --timings, which produces a report of how long the different steps of the build process took. It includes lists of Cargo features for each crate. Prior to Rust 1.72, Cargo feature names were allowed to contain almost any characters (with some exceptions as used by the feature syntax), but it would produce a future incompatibility warning about them since Rust 1.49. crates.io is far more stringent about what it considers a valid feature name and has not allowed such feature names. As the feature names were included unescaped in the timings report, they could be used to inject Javascript into the page, for example with a feature name like features = ["<img src='' onerror=alert(0)"]. If this report were subsequently uploaded to a domain that uses credentials, the injected Javascript could access resources from the website visitor.

This issue was fixed in Rust 1.72 by turning the future incompatibility warning into an error. Users should still exercise care in which package they download, by only including trusted dependencies in their projects. Please note that even with these vulnerabilities fixed, by design Cargo allows arbitrary code execution at build time thanks to build scripts and procedural macros: a malicious dependency will be able to cause damage regardless of these vulnerabilities. crates.io has server-side checks preventing this attack, and there are no packages on crates.io exploiting these vulnerabilities. crates.io users still need to excercise care in choosing their dependencies though, as remote code execution is allowed by design there as well. (CVE-2023-40030)

Affected Packages:

rust

Note:

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Issue Correction:
Run yum update rust to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    rust-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rust-std-static-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rust-doc-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    cargo-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rustfmt-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rust-analyzer-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    clippy-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rust-analysis-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
    rust-debuginfo-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.aarch64  
  
noarch:  
    rust-debugger-common-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.noarch  
    rust-gdb-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.noarch  
    rust-src-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.noarch  
    rust-toolset-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.noarch  
  
src:  
    rust-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.src  
  
x86_64:  
    rust-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rust-std-static-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rust-doc-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    cargo-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rustfmt-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rust-analyzer-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    clippy-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rust-analysis-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  
    rust-debuginfo-1.68.2-1.amzn2.0.4.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-40030

Mitre: CVE-2023-40030