CVE-2023-40030 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2023-40030 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 24/08/2023 | CVE Updated: 30/09/2024 | CVE Year: 2023
Source: GitHub_M | Vendor: rust-lang | Product: cargo
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2023-40030 Description

Cargo downloads a Rust project’s 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 = ["

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)* NETWORK
    Attack Complexity (AC)* LOW
    Privileges Required (PR)* NONE
    User Interaction (UI)* REQUIRED
    Scope (S)* CHANGED

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)* LOW
    Integrity Impact (I)* LOW
    Availability Impact (A)* NONE

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-79
CWE Name: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ( Cross-site Scripting )
Source: rust-lang

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).