CVE-2026-5223
Essential information
- Published
- 25/05/2026 10:16
- Modified
- 26/05/2026 19:08
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3) 6.5 MEDIUM (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS metrics
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- PASSIVE
- Confidentiality (V)
- NONE
- Confidentiality (S)
- HIGH
- Integrity (V)
- LOW
- Integrity (S)
- HIGH
- Availability (V)
- NONE
- Availability (S)
- HIGH
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
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.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 986d4109-89ea-491f-99fd-a8e4803919bd
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| cargo / cargo | cpe:2.3:a:cargo:cargo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |