CVE-2026-5223EPSS p33.1%
CVE-2026-5223CVE-2026-5223
rust-lang / cargo
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.3 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| EPSS | 0.41% probability of exploitation · percentile 33.1% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Last modified | 2026-06-01 |
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