Cargo downloads the Rust project’s dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2, bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround, configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in `~/.cargo`.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has rust packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2023:0205 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

      CVE-2023-38497:
      Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     ~/.cargo.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0635 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-38497:
    Cargo downloads the Rust projects dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`.

    CVE-2023-40030:
    Cargo downloads a Rust projects dependencies and compiles the project. Starting in Rust 1.60.0 and     prior to 1.72, Cargo did not escape Cargo feature names when including them in the report generated by     `cargo build --timings`. A malicious package included as a dependency may inject nearly arbitrary HTML     here, potentially leading to cross-site scripting if the report is subsequently uploaded somewhere. The     vulnerability affects users relying on dependencies from git, local paths, or alternative registries.
    Users who solely depend on crates.io are unaffected.

    Rust 1.60.0 introduced `cargo build --timings`, which produces a report of how long the different steps of     the build process took. It includes lists of Cargo features for each crate. Prior to Rust 1.72, Cargo     feature names were allowed to contain almost any characters (with some exceptions as used by the feature     syntax), but it would produce a future incompatibility warning about them since Rust 1.49. crates.io is     far more stringent about what it considers a valid feature name and has not allowed such feature names. As     the feature names were included unescaped in the timings report, they could be used to inject Javascript     into the page, for example with a feature name like `features = [<img src='' onerror=alert(0)]`. If this     report were subsequently uploaded to a domain that uses credentials, the injected Javascript could access     resources from the website visitor.

    This issue was fixed in Rust 1.72 by turning the future incompatibility warning into an error. Users     should still exercise care in which package they download, by only including trusted dependencies in their     projects. Please note that even with these vulnerabilities fixed, by design Cargo allows arbitrary code     execution at build time thanks to build scripts and procedural macros: a malicious dependency will be able     to cause damage regardless of these vulnerabilities. crates.io has server-side checks preventing this     attack, and there are no packages on crates.io exploiting these vulnerabilities. crates.io users still     need to excercise care in choosing their dependencies though, as remote code execution is allowed by     design there as well.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0096 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-38497:
    Cargo downloads the Rust projects dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-07 (Rust: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rust. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below     for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3428 advisory.

    Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo     build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies     (CVE-2023-38497)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References     section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3418 advisory.

    Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo     build tool and dependency manager, and required libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies     (CVE-2023-38497)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)     listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the rust-1.71.1-1.el9 build changelog.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-323 advisory.

    Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of rust installed on the remote host is prior to 1.68.2-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2223 advisory.

    Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-4635 advisory.

    [1.66.1-2]
    - rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-4634 advisory.

    [1.66.1-2]
    - rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:4634 advisory.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:4635 advisory.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-4824704a61 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-38497

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:4635 advisory.

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:4634 advisory.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4651 advisory.

    Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency     manager, and required libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4635 advisory.

    Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency     manager, and required libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4634 advisory.

    Rust Toolset provides the Rust programming language compiler rustc, the cargo build tool and dependency     manager, and required libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rust-cargo: cargo does not respect the umask when extracting dependencies (CVE-2023-38497)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3251-1 advisory.

  - Cargo downloads the Rust project's dependencies and compiles the project. Cargo prior to version 0.72.2,     bundled with Rust prior to version 1.71.1, did not respect the umask when extracting crate archives on     UNIX-like systems. If the user downloaded a crate containing files writeable by any local user, another     local user could exploit this to change the source code compiled and executed by the current user. To     prevent existing cached extractions from being exploitable, the Cargo binary version 0.72.2 included in     Rust 1.71.1 or later will purge caches generated by older Cargo versions automatically. As a workaround,     configure one's system to prevent other local users from accessing the Cargo directory, usually located in     `~/.cargo`. (CVE-2023-38497)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-6f2c7aa713 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-38497

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6275-1 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
242712	NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : rust Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0146)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
239111	TencentOS Server 3: rust-toolset:rhel8 (TSSA-2023:0205)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
238685	TencentOS Server 4: rust (TSSA-2024:0635)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
236119	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0096: rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0096)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	high
226183	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-38497	Nessus	Misc.	high
207573	GLSA-202409-07 : Rust: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
197976	RHEL 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2024:3428)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
197973	RHEL 9 : rust (RHSA-2024:3418)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
191261	CentOS 9 : rust-1.71.1-1.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
181177	Amazon Linux 2023 : cargo, clippy, rust (ALAS2023-2023-323)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
181144	Amazon Linux 2 : rust (ALAS-2023-2223)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
180215	Oracle Linux 8 : rust-toolset:ol8 (ELSA-2023-4635)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
180196	Oracle Linux 9 : rust (ELSA-2023-4634)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
180157	Rocky Linux 9 : rust (RLSA-2023:4634)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
180155	Rocky Linux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RLSA-2023:4635)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
179913	Fedora 37 : rust (2023-4824704a61)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
179897	AlmaLinux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (ALSA-2023:4635)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
179832	AlmaLinux 9 : rust (ALSA-2023:4634)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
179818	RHEL 7 : rust-toolset-1.66-rust (RHSA-2023:4651)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
179817	RHEL 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2023:4635)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
179810	RHEL 9 : rust (RHSA-2023:4634)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
179658	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rust1.71 (SUSE-SU-2023:3251-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
179647	Fedora 38 : rust (2023-6f2c7aa713)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
179333	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : Cargo vulnerability (USN-6275-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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