CVE-2018-1000622: Rust-Lang Rust

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Rust-Lang Rust: from 0.8, up to and including 1.27.0

Published 2018-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.