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RUSTSEC-2026-0171
No affected components available
The logflux crate attempted to download and run a malicious payload on the
user's machine.
The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-04-26, approximately 1 month before removal, and had no evidence of actual usage. This crate had no dependencies on crates.io.
Thanks to Paweł Bis for discovering and reporting this crate!
This appears to have been part of a campaign targeting people applying for Rust jobs. Please be careful with take-home assignments, especially if they ask you to use specific dependencies.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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