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rustsec-2026-0261

Vulnerability from osv_rustsec

Published

2026-08-20 12:00

Modified

2026-08-21 06:28

Summary

`aronenao` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

Details

We identified that aronenao contained malicious code executed through a build script.

This crate had 11 versions, with the most recent one being published at 2026-08-18. The crate was removed from crates.io and the user account was locked.

This crate was used as part of a malware campaign targeted at users of arrayref, which was downloaded 2,285 times before being removed; see the arrayref advisory for more detail.

References

URL

Type

	https://crates.io/crates/aronenao	PACKAGE
	https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0261.html	ADVISORY
	https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chai…	WEB

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "categories": [],
        "cvss": null,
        "informational": null
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "affected_functions": null,
        "affects": {
          "arch": [],
          "functions": [],
          "os": []
        }
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "aronenao",
        "purl": "pkg:cargo/aronenao"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.0.0-0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "database_specific": {
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
  },
  "details": "We identified that `aronenao` contained malicious code executed through a build\nscript.\n\nThis crate had 11 versions, with the most recent one being published at\n2026-08-18. The crate was removed from crates.io and the user account was\nlocked.\n\nThis crate was used as part of a malware campaign targeted at users of\n`arrayref`, which was downloaded 2,285 times before being removed; see\n[the `arrayref` advisory][arrayref-advisory] for more detail.\n\n[arrayref-advisory]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0260.html",
  "id": "RUSTSEC-2026-0261",
  "modified": "2026-08-21T06:28:40Z",
  "published": "2026-08-20T12:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/aronenao"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0261.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "`aronenao` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code"
}

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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