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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

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What Is a Vulnerability, Really? Source, Sink, and Taint

Two Java methods. One of them will let an attacker delete your entire products table. The other is completely safe. public int deleteA ( HttpServletRequest request , Connection conn ) { String id =…

  • Source is user input entry point, e.g. HttpServletRequest object
  • Sink is program operation where tainted data can cause harm
  • Taint spreads malicious data through program operations

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