GHSA-xwfj-jgwm-7wp5

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xwfj-jgwm-7wp5

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-xwfj-jgwm-7wp5/GHSA-xwfj-jgwm-7wp5.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-xwfj-jgwm-7wp5

Aliases

CVE-2025-58160

Related

Published

2025-08-29T20:33:56Z

Modified

2025-08-29T21:44:30.394854Z

Severity

2.3 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Tracing logging user input may result in poisoning logs with ANSI escape sequences

Details

Impact

Previous versions of tracing-subscriber were vulnerable to ANSI escape sequence injection attacks. Untrusted user input containing ANSI escape sequences could be injected into terminal output when logged, potentially allowing attackers to:

Manipulate terminal title bars
Clear screens or modify terminal display
Potentially mislead users through terminal manipulation

In isolation, impact is minimal, however security issues have been found in terminal emulators that enabled an attacker to use ANSI escape sequences via logs to exploit vulnerabilities in the terminal emulator.

Patches

tracing-subscriber version 0.3.20 fixes this vulnerability by escaping ANSI control characters in when writing events to destinations that may be printed to the terminal.

Workarounds

Avoid printing logs to terminal emulators without escaping ANSI control sequences.

References

https://www.packetlabs.net/posts/weaponizing-ansi-escape-sequences/

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank zefr0x who responsibly reported the issue at security@tokio.rs.

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in any tokio-rs project, please email us at security@tokio.rs.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-29T20:33:56Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-150"
    ],
    "severity": "LOW"
}

References

Affected packages

crates.io / tracing-subscriber

Package

Name: tracing-subscriber; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:cargo/tracing-subscriber

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.3.20