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CVE-2018-1000622

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

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.

Affected products

• rust-lang rust: from 0.8 through 1.27.0

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
• 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

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