CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-46176

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Published: Jan 11, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Cargo is a Rust package manager. The Rust Security Response WG was notified that Cargo did not perform SSH host key verification when cloning indexes and dependencies via SSH. An attacker could exploit this to perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022-46176. All Rust versions containing Cargo before 1.66.1 are vulnerable. Note that even if you dont explicitly use SSH for alternate registry indexes or crate dependencies, you might be affected by this vulnerability if you have configured git to replace HTTPS connections to GitHub with SSH (through gits [url.<base>.insteadOf][1] setting), as thatd cause you to clone the crates.io index through SSH. Rust 1.66.1 will ensure Cargo checks the SSH host key and abort the connection if the servers public key is not already trusted. We recommend everyone to upgrade as soon as possible.

Weakness

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cargo Rust-lang * 0.67.0 (including)
Cargo Ubuntu bionic *
Cargo Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Cargo Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Cargo Ubuntu focal *
Cargo Ubuntu jammy *
Cargo Ubuntu lunar *
Cargo Ubuntu trusty *
Cargo Ubuntu xenial *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu jammy *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu kinetic *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu lunar *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu trusty *
Rust-cargo Ubuntu xenial *

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