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.
The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the regex crate did not
properly limit the complexity of the regular expressions (regex) it parses. An
attacker could use this security issue to perform a denial of service, by
sending a specially crafted regex to a service accepting untrusted regexes. No
known vulnerability is present when parsing untrusted input with trusted
regexes.
This issue has been assigned CVE-2022-24713. The severity of this vulnerability
is "high" when the regex crate is used to parse untrusted regexes. Other uses
of the regex crate are not affected by this vulnerability.
Overview
The regex crate features built-in mitigations to prevent denial of service
attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched by trusted
regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent
attacks. This guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's
API.
Unfortunately a bug was discovered in the mitigations designed to prevent
untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing, and it's
possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible
to perform denial of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to
services accepting user-controlled, untrusted regexes.
Affected versions
All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this
issue. The fix is include starting from regex 1.5.5.
Mitigations
We recommend everyone accepting user-controlled regexes to upgrade immediately
to the latest version of the regex crate.
Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic regexes, as there are
practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this
vulnerability. Because of this, we do not recommend denying known problematic
regexes.
Acknowledgements
We want to thank Addison Crump for responsibly disclosing this to us according
to the Rust security policy, and for helping review the fix.
We also want to thank Andrew Gallant for developing the fix, and Pietro Albini
for coordinating the disclosure and writing this advisory.
tar: `unpack_in` can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks
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
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.
