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Crate http_req

Dependencies

(4 total, 3 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 native-tls^0.20.2.11up to date
 rustls^0.150.23.4out of date
 webpki ⚠️^0.190.22.4out of date
 webpki-roots^0.160.26.1out of date

Security Vulnerabilities

webpki: webpki: CPU denial of service in certificate path building

RUSTSEC-2023-0052

When this crate is given a pathological certificate chain to validate, it will spend CPU time exponential with the number of candidate certificates at each step of path building.

Both TLS clients and TLS servers that accept client certificate are affected.

This was previously reported in https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/69 and re-reported recently by Luke Malinowski.

webpki 0.22.1 included a partial fix and webpki 0.22.2 added further fixes.