Vulnerability RUSTSEC-2026-0427

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 8.8
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
1 day ago
October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
`sn-releases`: `extract_release_archive` writes archive entries without a path-traversal check (zip-slip)
0.1.0 - 0.3.1
0.1.0 - 0.3.1

Summary

`sn-releases`: `extract_release_archive` writes archive entries without a path-traversal check (zip-slip)

Details

SafeReleaseRepoActions::extract_release_archive builds each output path from the raw archive entry name and writes to it with no traversal check, so a malicious release archive can create directories and write files outside the destination directory, a "zip-slip" / path traversal (CWE-22 / CWE-23).

In src/lib.rs (extract_release_archive, zip branch):

let mut file = archive.by_index(i)?;
let out_path = dest_dir_path.join(file.name());   // file.name() is the raw entry name
if file.name().ends_with('/') {
    std::fs::create_dir_all(&out_path)?;          // no `..` check
} else {
    let mut outfile = std::fs::File::create(&out_path)?;   // writes outside dest
    std::io::copy(&mut file, &mut outfile)?;
}

The crate is unmaintained (latest release 0.3.1, 2024-10-22) and no fixed version is available.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
1 day ago
October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Last Modified
16 hours ago
October 30, 2026 at 11:15 AM UTC