This project contains known security vulnerabilities. Find detailed information at the bottom.

Crate nanopub

Dependencies

(10 total, 1 outdated, 1 insecure, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 base64^0.220.22.1up to date
 oxrdf^0.30.3.3up to date
 oxttl^0.20.2.3up to date
 oxjsonld^0.20.2.5up to date
 regex^1.101.12.4up to date
 serde^1.01.0.228up to date
 chrono ⚠️^0.40.4.45maybe insecure
 rsa ⚠️^0.90.9.10insecure
 getrandom^0.30.4.3out of date
 reqwest^0.130.13.4up to date

Crate nanopub-cli

Dependencies

(2 total, all up-to-date)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 clap^4.54.6.1up to date
 clap_complete^4.54.6.7up to date

Crate nanopub-sign

Dependencies

(2 total, 2 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 pyo3 ⚠️^0.280.29.0out of date
 pythonize^0.280.29.0out of date

Crate nanopub-js

Dependencies

(8 total, 2 outdated)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 wasm-bindgen^0.20.2.126up to date
 wasm-bindgen-futures^0.40.4.76up to date
 wasm-bindgen-derive^0.30.4.0out of date
 js-sys^0.30.3.103up to date
 serde^1.01.0.228up to date
 serde-wasm-bindgen^0.60.6.5up to date
 getrandom^0.30.4.3out of date
 console_error_panic_hook^0.10.1.7up to date

Dev dependencies

(1 total, all up-to-date)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 wasm-bindgen-test^0.30.3.76up 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

rsa: Marvin Attack: potential key recovery through timing sidechannels

RUSTSEC-2023-0071

Impact

Due to a non-constant-time implementation, information about the private key is leaked through timing information which is observable over the network. An attacker may be able to use that information to recover the key.

Patches

No patch is yet available, however work is underway to migrate to a fully constant-time implementation.

Workarounds

The only currently available workaround is to avoid using the rsa crate in settings where attackers are able to observe timing information, e.g. local use on a non-compromised computer is fine.

References

This vulnerability was discovered as part of the "Marvin Attack", which revealed several implementations of RSA including OpenSSL had not properly mitigated timing sidechannel attacks.

pyo3: Out-of-bounds read in `nth` / `nth_back` for `PyList` and `PyTuple` iterators

RUSTSEC-2026-0176

PyO3 0.24.0 added optimized implementations of Iterator::nth and DoubleEndedIterator::nth_back for the BoundListIterator and BoundTupleIterator types. These implementations computed the target index using unchecked usize addition (index + n) before bounds-checking against the sequence length, then read the element via get_item_unchecked.

In nth methods, a sufficiently large n (combined with a non-zero internal index) could cause the addition to overflow and wrap around, producing a small "target index" that passed the bounds check and enabling reads at the front of the list or tuple of elements previously yielded by the iterator.

In nth_back methods, a sufficiently large n could cause underflow in a similar fashion, however would instead allow reads of arbitrary memory past the end of the list or tuple storage.

PyO3 0.29.0 has corrected these methods to use checked arithmetic at the positions which could be at risk of overflow.

pyo3: Missing `Sync` bound on `PyCFunction::new_closure` closures

RUSTSEC-2026-0177

PyCFunction::new_closure (and the temporary new_closure_bound complement in the 0.21–0.22 series) required the supplied closure to be Send + 'static but not Sync. The resulting PyCFunction is a Python callable that can be invoked from any Python thread, which means the closure may be called concurrently from multiple threads, and needs a Sync bound to prevent possible data races.

The problem exists under all Python versions but is particularly vulnerable under the newer free-threaded Python variant, which do not have serial execution imposed by the Global Interpreter Lock. Under releases protected by the GIL, the ability to "detach" from the Python interpreter temporarily inside the closure (e.g. by Python::detach) makes it possible for interleaved and/or concurrent execution of various portions of the closure.

PyO3 0.29.0 added a Sync bound to close this thread-safety bug.