This project might be open to known security vulnerabilities, which can be prevented by tightening the version range of affected dependencies. Find detailed information at the bottom.

Crate rustodon

Dependencies

(29 total, 12 outdated, 5 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 dotenv^0.140.15.0out of date
 maplit^1.01.0.2up to date
 failure^0.1.60.1.8up to date
 failure_derive^0.1.50.1.8up to date
 lazy_static^1.41.5.0up to date
 itertools^0.8.00.14.0out of date
 structopt^0.2.160.3.26out of date
 regex ⚠️^1.3.31.12.3maybe insecure
 slog^2.52.8.2up to date
 slog-term^2.42.9.2up to date
 slog-async^2.32.8.0up to date
 slog-scope^4.14.4.1up to date
 rocket-slog^0.40.4.0up to date
 rocket^0.40.5.1out of date
 serde^1.01.0.228up to date
 serde_derive^1.01.0.228up to date
 serde_json^1.01.0.149up to date
 validator^0.90.20.0out of date
 validator_derive^0.90.20.0out of date
 askama^0.8.00.15.4out of date
 ammonia ⚠️^3.0.04.1.2out of date
 diesel ⚠️^1.4.32.3.6out of date
 flaken^0.2.20.2.2up to date
 chrono ⚠️^0.40.4.43maybe insecure
 chrono-humanize^0.0.110.2.3out of date
 openssl ⚠️^0.10.250.10.75maybe insecure
 pwhash^0.31.0.0out of date
 base32^0.40.5.1out of date
 rocket_contrib^0.40.4.11up to date

Crate resopt

No external dependencies! 🙌

Crate posticle

Dependencies

(4 total, 1 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 ammonia ⚠️^3.04.1.2out of date
 maplit^1.01.0.2up to date
 pest^2.12.8.6up to date
 pest_derive^2.12.8.6up to date

Dev dependencies

(2 total, 1 outdated)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 yaml-rust^0.4.30.4.5up to date
 pretty_assertions^0.6.11.4.1out of date

Security Vulnerabilities

chrono: Potential segfault in `localtime_r` invocations

RUSTSEC-2020-0159

Impact

Unix-like operating systems may segfault due to dereferencing a dangling pointer in specific circumstances. This requires an environment variable to be set in a different thread than the affected functions. This may occur without the user's knowledge, notably in a third-party library.

Workarounds

No workarounds are known.

References

regex: Regexes with large repetitions on empty sub-expressions take a very long time to parse

RUSTSEC-2022-0013

The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the regex crate did not properly limit the complexity of the regular expressions (regex) it parses. An attacker could use this security issue to perform a denial of service, by sending a specially crafted regex to a service accepting untrusted regexes. No known vulnerability is present when parsing untrusted input with trusted regexes.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2022-24713. The severity of this vulnerability is "high" when the regex crate is used to parse untrusted regexes. Other uses of the regex crate are not affected by this vulnerability.

Overview

The regex crate features built-in mitigations to prevent denial of service attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched by trusted regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent attacks. This guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's API.

Unfortunately a bug was discovered in the mitigations designed to prevent untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing, and it's possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible to perform denial of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to services accepting user-controlled, untrusted regexes.

Affected versions

All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this issue. The fix is include starting from regex 1.5.5.

Mitigations

We recommend everyone accepting user-controlled regexes to upgrade immediately to the latest version of the regex crate.

Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic regexes, as there are practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this vulnerability. Because of this, we do not recommend denying known problematic regexes.

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Addison Crump for responsibly disclosing this to us according to the Rust security policy, and for helping review the fix.

We also want to thank Andrew Gallant for developing the fix, and Pietro Albini for coordinating the disclosure and writing this advisory.

diesel: Binary Protocol Misinterpretation caused by Truncating or Overflowing Casts

RUSTSEC-2024-0365

The following presentation at this year's DEF CON was brought to our attention on the Diesel Gitter Channel:

SQL Injection isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level
http://web.archive.org/web/20240812130923/https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2032%20-%20Paul%20Gerste%20-%20SQL%20Injection%20Isn't%20Dead%20Smuggling%20Queries%20at%20the%20Protocol%20Level.pdf
(Archive link for posterity.) Essentially, encoding a value larger than 4GiB can cause the length prefix in the protocol to overflow, causing the server to interpret the rest of the string as binary protocol commands or other data.

It appears Diesel does perform truncating casts in a way that could be problematic, for example: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/blob/ae82c4a5a133db65612b7436356f549bfecda1c7/diesel/src/pg/connection/stmt/mod.rs#L36

This code has existed essentially since the beginning, so it is reasonable to assume that all published versions <= 2.2.2 are affected.

Mitigation

The prefered migration to the outlined problem is to update to a Diesel version newer than 2.2.2, which includes fixes for the problem.

As always, you should make sure your application is validating untrustworthy user input. Reject any input over 4 GiB, or any input that could encode to a string longer than 4 GiB. Dynamically built queries are also potentially problematic if it pushes the message size over this 4 GiB bound.

For web application backends, consider adding some middleware that limits the size of request bodies by default.

Resolution

Diesel now uses #[deny] directives for the following Clippy lints:

to prevent casts that will lead to precision loss or other trunctations. Additionally we performed an audit of the relevant code.

A fix is included in the 2.2.3 release.

openssl: Use-After-Free in `Md::fetch` and `Cipher::fetch`

RUSTSEC-2025-0022

When a Some(...) value was passed to the properties argument of either of these functions, a use-after-free would result.

In practice this would nearly always result in OpenSSL treating the properties as an empty string (due to CString::drop's behavior).

The maintainers thank quitbug for reporting this vulnerability to us.

ammonia: Incorrect handling of embedded SVG and MathML leads to mutation XSS after removal

RUSTSEC-2025-0071

Affected versions of this crate did not correctly strip namespace-incompatible tags in certain situations, causing it to incorrectly account for differences between HTML, SVG, and MathML.

This vulnerability only has an effect when the svg or math tag is allowed, because it relies on a tag being parsed as html during the cleaning process, but serialized in a way that causes in to be parsed as xml by the browser.

Additionally, the application using this library must allow a tag that is parsed as raw text in HTML. These elements are:

  • title
  • textarea
  • xmp
  • iframe
  • noembed
  • noframes
  • plaintext
  • noscript
  • style
  • script

Applications that do not explicitly allow any of these tags should not be affected, since none are allowed by default.