USN-6275-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38497)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-08-03 14:30 – Updated: 2026-06-25 10:46 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
cargo, rust-cargo vulnerability
Details
Addison Crump discovered that Cargo incorrectly set file permissions on UNIX-like systems when extracting crate archives. If the crate would contain files writable by any user, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute code as another user.
References
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