RUSTSEC-2023-0100

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Source

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0100

Import Source

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2023-0100.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2023-0100

Published

2023-08-16T12:00:00Z

Modified

2026-03-19T22:30:08.097042Z

Summary

`xrvrv` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

Details

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the malicious user amaperf and contained a malware payload in build.rs to exfiltrate host information to the attacker.

This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longer available. The related malicious crates have been yanked, and the malicious account has been banned.

Thanks to Veracode (formerly phylum)for reporting this to the crates.io team!

Database specific

{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}

References

Affected packages

crates.io / xrvrv

Package

Name: xrvrv; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:cargo/xrvrv

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.0-0

Ecosystem specific

{
    "affects": {
        "arch": [],
        "functions": [],
        "os": []
    },
    "affected_functions": null
}