RUSTSEC-2023-0104

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Source

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0104

Import Source

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2023-0104.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2023-0104

Published

2023-11-06T12:00:00Z

Modified

2026-03-26T06:30:06Z

Summary

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

Details

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the malicious user http-tiny 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 Louis Lang at Phylum (now Veracode) for reporting this malware campaign.

Database specific

{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}

References

Affected packages

crates.io / littest

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.0-0

Ecosystem specific

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