Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000622
Published: 2018-07-09

Description:
The Rust Programming Language rustdoc version Between 0.8 and 1.27.0 contains a CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in rustdoc plugins that can result in local code execution as a different user. This attack appear to be exploitable via using the --plugin flag without the --plugin-path flag. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.27.1.

Type:

CWE-427

 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Rust-lang -> RUST 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00076.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00006.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rustlang-security-announcements/4ybxYLTtXuM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-11
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