Malicious Package

Overview fasterlog is a malicious package. Two malicious Rust crates, fasterlog impersonates the legitimate fastlog library and asyncprintln attempt to scan source files for Quoted Ethereum private keys 0x + 64 hex, Solana-style Base58 secrets and Bracketed byte arrays to later exfiltrate matches...

Malicious Package

Overview asyncprintln is a malicious package. Two malicious Rust crates, fasterlog impersonates the legitimate fastlog library and asyncprintln attempt to scan source files for Quoted Ethereum private keys 0x + 64 hex, Solana-style Base58 secrets and Bracketed byte arrays to later exfiltrate...

Extracting malicious crates can corrupt arbitrary files

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Extracting malicious crates can fill the file system

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RUSTSEC-2023-0124 `bit-flags` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the user alexrichton to run an arbitrary malware payload on Windows hosts. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longer...

RUSTSEC-2023-0123 `hann-rs-service` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the user TerryDavisSoldier to run an arbitrary malware payload on Windows hosts. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longe...

RUSTSEC-2023-0109 `win-crypto` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the user Kraded to run an arbitrary malware payload on Windows hosts. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longer available...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-16760

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,...