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Security advisory database for Rust crates published through crates.io

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 5 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-05-05 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. …link but that's also broken https://web.archive.org/web/20260820150747/https://crates.io... ) [4]: https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161#issuecomm...
    comment by cube00 · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  2. …Direct post link: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on... Initial report: https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161 Other vendor posts: * https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/arrayref-rust-crate-supply-... *…
    comment by ramimac · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  3. …the new Rust "ls": ubuntu@resolute:~$ cargo audit bin /usr/bin/ls Fetching advisory database from `https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db.git` Loaded 1107 security advisories (from /home/ubuntu/.cargo/advisory-db) Updating crates.io index…
    comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2026-06-04 · in Cargo-Auditable Support on Ubuntu
  4. For Rust, the advisory database cargo-audit uses ( https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/ ) does track which functions are affected by a cve (if provided). I'm not sure if the tool uses them though.
    comment by dwattttt · 2025-05-12 · in Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix
  5. Related thread: * https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/1921 * https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1772576163371655263
    comment by tison · 2024-03-26 · in Serde-YAML for Rust has been archived
  6. …[2] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3116... [3] https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/main/crates/cros... [4] https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/main/crates/toki... [5] https://github.com/rus
    comment by kprotty · 2023-03-07 · in Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust
  7. Hyper 0.11.26 - https://crates.io/crates/hyper/0.11.26 Not yanked. Vulnerable to https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/blob/main/crates/hype...
    comment by richardwhiuk · 2021-04-20 · in Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
  8. …an integer overflow outside the unsafe block[1]. The unsafe code itself was written correctly. [1] https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/blob/master/crates/ba...
    comment by agwa · 2017-05-05 · in The Rust Libs Blitz