Rust Security Vulnerabilities

Rust is a general-purpose, compiled programming language from the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Rust RustCrypto RSA, which stems from the disclosure of timing information where information about private keys can be observed over the network...

Hamas-Linked Cyberattacks Using Rust-Powered SysJoker Backdoor Against Israel

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Rust version of a cross-platform backdoor called SysJoker, which is assessed to have been used by a Hamas-affiliated threat actor to target Israel amid the ongoing war in the region. "Among the most prominent changes is the shift to Rust language,...

abacuz (0.1.1), acmer (>=0.0.1, <=0.0.4) +372 more potentially affected by CVE-2023-49092 via rsa (>=0.1.2, <=0.8.2)

rsa CARGO version =0.1.2, =0.0.1, =0.12.0, =0.5.0, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =1.0.1, =0.1.0, =0.3.11, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =0.2.0, =0.11.0, =0.16.0 and more Source cves: CVE-2023-49092 Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2023-0071...

Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions

The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amid rising tensions between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 attributed the adversarial collective to three campaigns in August 2023,...

RUSTSEC-2023-0105 `windowsservice` 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...

`windows-service-rs` 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...

cpython-json (>=0.1.0, <=0.3.0), crowbar (>=0.1.0, <=0.2.0) +33 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via cpython (>=0.1.0, <=0.7.2)

cpython CARGO version =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =2.0.0-beta, =0.1.0, =0.0.0, =0.1.1, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.2.1 and more Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2023-0076...

New Ransomware Group Emerges with Hive's Source Code and Infrastructure

The threat actors behind a new ransomware group called Hunters International have acquired the source code and infrastructure from the now-dismantled Hive operation to kick-start its own efforts in the threat landscape. "It appears that the leadership of the Hive group made the strategic decision...

btrfsutil (0.2.0), btrfsutil-fake (>=0.2.0-8324fe2, <=0.2.0) +15 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via loopdev (>=0.1.3, <=0.4.0)

loopdev CARGO version =0.1.3, =0.2.0-8324fe2, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.6.3, =0.1.1, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.5.0, =0.5.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =2.4.2, =3.5.8 and more Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2023-0088...

Dvenom - Tool That Provides An Encryption Wrapper And Loader For Your Shellcode

Double Venom DVenom is a tool that helps red teamers bypass AVs by providing an encryption wrapper and loader for your shellcode. Capable of bypassing some well-known antivirus AVs. Offers multiple encryption methods including RC4, AES256, XOR, and ROT. Produces source code in C, Rust, PowerShell...

Fedora 39 : rust-axum / rust-tokio-tungstenite / rust-tungstenite / rust-warp (2023-91a66898d2)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-91a66898d2 advisory. - Update the axum crate to version 0.6.20. - Update the tokio-tungstenite crate to version 0.20.1. - Update the tungstenite crate to version 0.20.1. - Port...

Fedora 39 : rust-askama / rust-askama_shared / rust-comrak (2023-aa46db07fd)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-aa46db07fd advisory. - Update comrak to version 0.18.0. - Disable the unused markdown support in askama and askamashared crates, which depends on an ancient version of...

Fedora 39 : rust-rustls-webpki (2023-4ae90bc849)

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-4ae90bc849 advisory. Update to version 0.100.2. This includes a fix for RUSTSEC-2023-0053 denial-of-service via crafted certificate chains. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Rocky Linux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2021:1935)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1935 advisory. - In the standard library in Rust before 1.49.0, String::retain function has a panic safety problem. It allows creation of a non-UTF-8 Rust string when...

Fedora 39 : firecracker / rust-aes-gcm (2023-17bdd59177)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-17bdd59177 advisory. - Update the aes-gcm crate to version 0.10.3. Addresses CVE-2023-42811. - Rebuild dependent packages firecracker for aes-gcm v0.10.3...

Rocky Linux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2022:1894)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:1894 advisory. - Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. The Rust Security Response WG...

RUSTSEC-2023-0114 `tiny-server` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the malicious user http-tiny and contained a malware payload in build.rs to exfiltrate host information to the attacker. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download...

Rocky Linux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2021:4270)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4270 advisory. - library/std/src/net/parser.rs in Rust before 1.53.0 does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string, which in so...

Malicious code in ironfish-rust-nodejs (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 7c72ce118b54d6f7c389cffe8b206419fdb96d698e61557ce25e5240a5ca6c38 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2023-8419 Malicious code in ironfish-rust-nodejs (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 7c72ce118b54d6f7c389cffe8b206419fdb96d698e61557ce25e5240a5ca6c38 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...