CVE-2021-38196

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-38196
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-08 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-16 16:50:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the better-macro crate through 2021-07-22 for Rust. It intentionally demonstrates that remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via proc-macros, and otherwise has no legitimate purpose.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-94

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Better-macro Project Better-macro All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
RUSTSEC-2021-0077: better-macro: `better-macro` has deliberate RCE to prove a point › RustSec Advisory Database MISC rustsec.org
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/better-macro/RUSTSEC-2021-007... MISC raw.githubusercontent.com
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