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MSC-2026-11386
Published:August 20, 2026
Updated:August 20, 2026
Active Rust supply chain attack compromises two widely used crates, arrayref (244M downloads) and append-only-vec (4M downloads), published by the same maintainer. A single injected manifest line adds a dependency on proc-macro1, a typosquat of proc-macro2 whose build.rs downloads and executes a platform-specific remote payload at compile time - merely building a project that pulls in either crate is sufficient to trigger infection, with no need to invoke the crate's functionality. A related lookalike, proc-macro-en, was published under an author name impersonating the legitimate maintainer. This is the largest Rust crate compromise observed by download count.
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Embedded Malicious Code