Vulnerability RUSTSEC-2026-0434

ant-releases downloads and unpacks release archives from the safe_network / autonomi repositories. When it extracts an archive, it builds each output path by joining the archive entry's own name onto the destination directory, with no check for .. or absolute components — a classic "zip-slip" path traversal (CWE-22 / CWE-23). A crafted archive can therefore create or overwrite files outside the intended extraction directory.

In extract_release_archive (src/lib.rs), the ZIP branch does:

let out_path = dest_dir_path.join(file.name());   // raw zip entry name, no containment check
if file.name().ends_with('/') {
    std::fs::create_dir_all(&out_path)?;          // dir created outside dest_dir
} else {
    let mut outfile = std::fs::File::create(&out_path)?;   // file written outside dest_dir
    std::io::copy(&mut file, &mut outfile)?;
}

Proof of concept

A one-entry ZIP whose entry name is ../foo_pwned.txt, passed to AntReleaseRepoActions::extract_release_archive (obtained via the crate's public <dyn AntReleaseRepoActions>::default_config()), writes foo_pwned.txt as a sibling of the destination directory, outside it. Confirmed against the published 0.4.3 crate.