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Medium ALAS2023-2026-1872 3 CVEs

Moderate: rust-cargo-c security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jun 22, 2026 · Updated Jun 22, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-7598: A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. CVE-2026-5222: Cargo between 1.68 and 1.96 incorrectly normalized the URLs of third-party registries using the sparse index protocol. If a hosting provider allowed multiple registries to be hosted with arbitrary names within the same domain, an attacker able to publish crates in a registry could obtain the credentials of others users of the same registry. The severity of the vulnerability is **low**, due to the extremely niche requirements needed to achieve the attack. CVE-2026-44471: gitoxide is an implementation of git written in Rust. Prior to 0.21.1, a malicious tree can be constructed that will, when checked out with gitoxide, permit writing an attacker-controlled symlink into any existing directory the user has write access to. During checkout, all symlink index entries are deferred and created after regular files using a single shared gix_worktree::Stack. Internally, this uses a gix_fs::Stack. gix_fs::Stack::make_relative_path_current() caches validated path prefixes: when the previously-processed leaf component exactly matches the leading component(s) of the next path, the leaf-to-directory transition at gix-fs/src/stack.rs invokes only delegate.push_directory(), never delegate.push(). In gix_worktree::stack::delegate::StackDelegate, when the state member is State::CreateDirectoryAndAttributesStack, Attributes::push_directory() only loads attributes (from the ODB, in the clone case), and does not perform any other checks. The on-disk symlink_metadata() check and unlink-on-collision live in StackDelegate::push()'s invocation of create_leading_directory(), which is therefore bypassed for the cached prefix. The final symlink is created with plain std::os::unix::fs::symlink, which follows symlinks in parent directories. Therefore, it's possible to provide a tree with duplicate symlink and directory entries that exploits this. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.21.1.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cargo-c 0:0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 cargo-c-debuginfo 0:0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 rust-cargo-c-debugsource 0:0.10.19-1.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    gitoxide: Symlink prefix-reuse allows worktree escape during checkout

    gitoxide is an implementation of git written in Rust. Prior to 0.21.1, a malicious tree can be constructed that will, when checked out with gitoxide, permit writing an attacker-controlled symlink into any existing directory the user has write access to. Durin…

  • High 7.3

    libssh2 userauth.c userauth_password integer overflow

    A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be lau…

  • Low 2.3

    Cargo can be coerced to share credentials between registries

    Cargo between 1.68 and 1.96 incorrectly normalized the URLs of third-party registries using the sparse index protocol. If a hosting provider allowed multiple registries to be hosted with arbitrary names within the same domain, an attacker able to publish crat…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-44471.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-5222.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-7598.html