This project might be open to known security vulnerabilities, which can be prevented by tightening the version range of affected dependencies. Find detailed information at the bottom.

Crate ress

Dependencies

(6 total, 2 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 flate2^11.1.10up to date
 indicatif^0.120.18.6out of date
 log^0.40.4.34up to date
 reqwest^0.90.13.5out of date
 tar ⚠️^0.40.4.46maybe insecure
 walkdir^22.5.0up to date

Dev dependencies

(9 total, 3 outdated)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 criterion^0.20.8.2out of date
 docopt^1.01.1.1up to date
 lazy_static^11.5.0up to date
 pretty_env_logger^0.20.5.0out of date
 proptest^0.81.11.0out of date
 regex_generate^0.2.00.2.3up to date
 serde^1.01.0.229up to date
 serde_derive^1.01.0.229up to date
 walkdir^2.22.5.0up to date

Security Vulnerabilities

tar: `unpack_in` can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

RUSTSEC-2026-0067

In versions 0.4.44 and below of tar-rs, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball containing a symlink entry followed by a directory entry with the same name causes the crate to treat the symlink target as a valid existing directory — and subsequently apply chmod to it. This allows an attacker to modify the permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root.

This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.

tar: tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero

RUSTSEC-2026-0068

Versions 0.4.44 and below of tar-rs have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero.

As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to correctly honor PAX size headers in the case where it was different from the base header. This is almost the inverse of the astral-tokio-tar issue.

Any discrepancy in how tar parsers honor file size can be used to create archives that appear differently when unpacked by different archivers. In this case, the tar-rs (Rust tar) crate is an outlier in checking for the header size — other tar parsers (including e.g. Go archive/tar) unconditionally use the PAX size override. This can affect anything that uses the tar crate to parse archives and expects to have a consistent view with other parsers.

This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.