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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1tYzhoLThxOTgtZzVocs4AAxzW

Race Condition Enabling Link Following and Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in remove_dir_all

The remove_dir_all crate is a Rust library that offers additional features over the Rust standard library fs::remove_dir_all function. It suffers the same class of failure as the code it was layering over: TOCTOU race conditions, with the ability to cause arbitrary paths to be deleted by substituting a symlink for a path after the type of the path was checked.

Thanks to the Rust security team for identifying the problem and alerting us to it.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: 7 months ago
Updated: 7 months ago

Identifiers: GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr
References:

• https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/remove_dir_all/security/advisories/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr
• https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/remove_dir_all/commit/7247a8b6ee59fc99bbb69ca6b3ca4bfd8c809ead
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0018.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr

Affected Packages