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.
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"github_reviewed": true,
"severity": "LOW",
"cwe_ids": [
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"github_reviewed_at": "2023-02-24T16:23:59Z"
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