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CVE-2026-5223

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-05-25 Modified: 2026-07-23

Description

Cargo incorrectly handled symlinks inside of crate tarballs downloaded from third-party registries, allowing a malicious crate to override the source code of another crate from the same registry. The severity of the vulnerability is **medium** for users of third-party registries. Users of crates.io are **not affected**, as crates.io forbids uploading crates containing any symlink.

Affected Platforms

Rust-Lang Cargo

Weakness Type

CWE-61

References