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

February 24, 2023

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.

References

  • github.com/XAMPPRocky/remove_dir_all
  • github.com/XAMPPRocky/remove_dir_all/commit/7247a8b6ee59fc99bbb69ca6b3ca4bfd8c809ead
  • github.com/XAMPPRocky/remove_dir_all/security/advisories/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0018.html

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.0 or above.

Weakness

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

Source file

cargo/remove_dir_all/GHSA-mc8h-8q98-g5hr.yml

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