Updated rust packages fix security vulnerability

The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the Rust standard library did not properly escape arguments when invoking batch files with the bat and cmd extensions on Windows using the Command API. An attacker able to control the arguments passed to the spawned process could execute arbitrary...

malicious crate `rustdecimal`

The Rust Security Response WG and the crates.io team were notified1 on 2022-05-02 of the existence of the malicious crate rustdecimal, which contained malware. The crate name was intentionally similar to the name of the popular rustdecimal2 crate, hoping that potential victims would misspell its...

Compilers permit Unicode control and homoglyph characters

Overview Attacks that allow for unintended control of Unicode and homoglyphic characters, described by the researchers in this report leverage text encoding that may cause source code to be interpreted differently by a compiler than it appears visually to a human reviewer. Source code compilers,...

XSS in mdBook

This is a cross-post of the official security advisoryml. The official post contains a signed version with our PGP key, as well. ml: https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/3-sO6of29O0 The Rust Security Response Working Group was recently notified of a security issue affecti...

RUSTSEC-2021-0001 XSS in mdBook's search page

This is a cross-post of the official security advisoryml. The official post contains a signed version with our PGP key, as well. ml: https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/3-sO6of29O0 The Rust Security Response Working Group was recently notified of a security issue affecti...