CVE-2022-36113 — Cargo is a package manager for the rust programming language

Cargo is a package manager for the rust programming language. After a package is downloaded, Cargo extracts its source code in the ~/.cargo folder on disk, making it available to the Rust projects it builds. To record when an extraction is successful, Cargo writes "ok"

01What is this vulnerability?

Cargo is a package manager for the rust programming language. After a package is downloaded, Cargo extracts its source code in the ~/.cargo folder on disk, making it available to the Rust projects it builds. To record when an extraction is successful, Cargo writes "ok" to the .cargo-ok file at the root of the extracted source code once it extracted all the files. It was discovered that Cargo…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
rust-lang	cargo	< 0.65.0, = 0.66.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-23T17:10:57.339Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/security/advisories/GHSA-rfj2-q3h3-hm5j
• github.com — https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/97b80919e404b0768ea31ae329c3b4da54bed0…