CVE-2018-1000622

The Rust Programming Language rustdoc version Between 0.8 and 1.27.0 contains a CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in rustdoc plugins that can result in local code execution as a different user. This attack appear to be exploitable via using the –plugin flag without the –plugin-path flag. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.27.1.

Date published : 2018-07-09

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rustlang-security-announcements/4ybxYLTtXuM

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-11