Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium · 4.6 CVE-2019-16760 EUVD-2022-3359GHSA-9f3p-wvj7-q82xGHSA-phjm-8x66-qw4r

Cargo prior to Rust 1.26.0 may download the wrong dependency

Published Sep 30, 2019 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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, which could be squatted on crates.io to be a malicious package. This not only affects manifests that you write locally yourself, but also manifests published to crates.io. Rust 1.0.0 through Rust 1.25.0 is affected by this advisory because Cargo will ignore the `package` key in manifests. Rust 1.26.0 through Rust 1.30.0 are not affected and typically will emit an error because the `package` key is unstable. Rust 1.31.0 and after are not affected because Cargo understands the `package` key. Users of the affected versions are strongly encouraged to update their compiler to the latest available one. Preventing this issue from happening requires updating your compiler to be either Rust 1.26.0 or newer. There will be no point release for Rust versions prior to 1.26.0. Users of Rust 1.19.0 to Rust 1.25.0 can instead apply linked patches to mitigate the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rust cargo 1.0.0 – < 1.26.0 1.26.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 12 cargo 0.27.0-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 rust +1 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Show 9 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.15 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.14 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.13 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.12 rust 1.26.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.11 rust 1.26.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io cargo < 0.27.0 0.27.0 GHSA-9f3p-wvj7-q82x

References