Uncontrolled Search Path Element Vulnerability in Rustdoc Plugins

CVE-2018-1000622 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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