GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr Race Condition Enabling Link Following and Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in remove_dir_all

LOW Published 2023-02-24 Modified 2023-02-24 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
remove_dir_all
Severity
Low
Weaknesses
CWE-366, CWE-367
Reviewed
2023-02-24

Affected packages

• crates.io remove_dir_all: < 0.8.0 → fixed in 0.8.0

Description

The `remove_dir_all` crate is a Rust library that offers additional features over the Rust standard library `fs::remove_dir_all` function. It suffers the same class of failure as the code it was layering over: TOCTOU race conditions, with the ability to cause arbitrary paths to be deleted by substituting a symlink for a path after the type of the path was checked. Thanks to the Rust security team for identifying the problem and alerting us to it.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-366 Race Condition within a Thread weakness
  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References