CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-1000622
High (7.8) in rust-lang rust. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- 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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00031.html
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rustlang-security-announcements/4ybxYLTtXuM
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-11