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 serwus

Dependencies

(32 total, 11 outdated, 2 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 actix^0.130.13.5up to date
 actix-cors^0.60.7.1out of date
 actix-http^33.11.0up to date
 actix-multipart^0.60.7.2out of date
 actix-service^22.0.3up to date
 actix-web^44.11.0up to date
 alcoholic_jwt^1.04091.0.0out of date
 awc^33.7.0up to date
 bytes^11.10.1up to date
 chrono ⚠️^0.40.4.41maybe insecure
 colored^2.03.0.0out of date
 derive_more^0.992.0.1out of date
 diesel ⚠️^2.12.2.11maybe insecure
 diesel-derive-newtype^2.12.1.2up to date
 dotenv^0.150.15.0up to date
 futures^0.30.3.31up to date
 jsonwebtoken^89.3.1out of date
 log^0.40.4.27up to date
 num_cpus^11.17.0up to date
 paperclip^0.80.9.5out of date
 quick-error^22.0.1up to date
 r2d2^0.80.8.10up to date
 rand^0.80.9.1out of date
 rust-argon2^12.1.0out of date
 serde^11.0.219up to date
 serde_json^11.0.140up to date
 serwus-derive^0.1.00.2.1out of date
 tracing^0.10.1.41up to date
 tracing-actix-web^0.70.7.18up to date
 tracing-subscriber^0.3.160.3.19up to date
 validator^0.160.20.0out of date
 weighted-rs^0.10.1.3up to date

Security Vulnerabilities

chrono: Potential segfault in `localtime_r` invocations

RUSTSEC-2020-0159

Impact

Unix-like operating systems may segfault due to dereferencing a dangling pointer in specific circumstances. This requires an environment variable to be set in a different thread than the affected functions. This may occur without the user's knowledge, notably in a third-party library.

Workarounds

No workarounds are known.

References

diesel: Binary Protocol Misinterpretation caused by Truncating or Overflowing Casts

RUSTSEC-2024-0365

The following presentation at this year's DEF CON was brought to our attention on the Diesel Gitter Channel:

SQL Injection isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level
http://web.archive.org/web/20240812130923/https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2032%20-%20Paul%20Gerste%20-%20SQL%20Injection%20Isn't%20Dead%20Smuggling%20Queries%20at%20the%20Protocol%20Level.pdf
(Archive link for posterity.) Essentially, encoding a value larger than 4GiB can cause the length prefix in the protocol to overflow, causing the server to interpret the rest of the string as binary protocol commands or other data.

It appears Diesel does perform truncating casts in a way that could be problematic, for example: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/blob/ae82c4a5a133db65612b7436356f549bfecda1c7/diesel/src/pg/connection/stmt/mod.rs#L36

This code has existed essentially since the beginning, so it is reasonable to assume that all published versions <= 2.2.2 are affected.

Mitigation

The prefered migration to the outlined problem is to update to a Diesel version newer than 2.2.2, which includes fixes for the problem.

As always, you should make sure your application is validating untrustworthy user input. Reject any input over 4 GiB, or any input that could encode to a string longer than 4 GiB. Dynamically built queries are also potentially problematic if it pushes the message size over this 4 GiB bound.

For web application backends, consider adding some middleware that limits the size of request bodies by default.

Resolution

Diesel now uses #[deny] directives for the following Clippy lints:

to prevent casts that will lead to precision loss or other trunctations. Additionally we performed an audit of the relevant code.

A fix is included in the 2.2.3 release.