{"id":"RUSTSEC-2024-0433","revision":"f7aedd6050e84241a0ecf6add10b5db9","records":[{"revision":"f7aedd6050e84241a0ecf6add10b5db9","observedAt":"2026-10-24T13:19:54.901+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"RUSTSEC-2024-0433","aliases":["GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w","RUSTSEC-2024-0432"],"title":"Malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities can cause arbitrary binary execution","description":"A plugin name containing a path separator may allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary\nbinary.\n\nSuch a plugin name can be provided through an attacker-controlled input to the following\n`age` APIs when the `plugin` feature flag is enabled:\n- [`age::plugin::Identity::from_str`](https://docs.rs/age/0.11.0/age/plugin/struct.Identity.html#impl-FromStr-for-Identity)\n  (or equivalently [`str::parse::<age::plugin::Identity>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/core/primitive.str.html#method.parse))\n- [`age::plugin::Identity::default_for_plugin`](https://docs.rs/age/0.11.0/age/plugin/struct.Identity.html#method.default_for_plugin)\n- [`age::plugin::IdentityPluginV1::new`](https://docs.rs/age/0.11.0/age/plugin/struct.IdentityPluginV1.html#method.new)\n  (the `plugin_name` argument)\n- [`age::plugin::Recipient::from_str`](https://docs.rs/age/0.11.0/age/plugin/struct.Recipient.html#impl-FromStr-for-Recipient)\n  (or equivalently [`str::parse::<age::plugin::Recipient>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/core/primitive.str.html#method.parse))\n- [`age::plugin::RecipientPluginV1::new`](https://docs.rs/age/0.11.0/age/plugin/struct.RecipientPluginV1.html#method.new)\n  (the `plugin_name` argument)\n\nOn UNIX systems, a directory matching `age-plugin-*` needs to exist in the working\ndirectory for the attack to succeed.\n\nThe binary is executed with a single flag, either `--age-plugin=recipient-v1` or\n`--age-plugin=identity-v1`. The standard input includes the recipient or identity string,\nand the random file key (if encrypting) or the header of the file (if decrypting). The\nformat is constrained by the [age-plugin](https://c2sp.org/age-plugin) protocol.\n\nAn equivalent issue was fixed in [the reference Go implementation of age](https://github.com/FiloSottile/age),\nsee advisory [GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c](https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/security/advisories/GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c).\n\nThanks to ⬡-49016 for reporting this issue.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2024-12-18T12:00:00+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-12T18:00:12.4037789+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","name":"age","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.6.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.6.1"},{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.7.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.7.2"},{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.8.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.8.2"},{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.9.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.9.3"},{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.10.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.10.1"},{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.11.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"0.11.1"}]}],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[],"references":["https://crates.io/crates/age","https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0433.html","https://github.com/str4d/rage/commit/703152ecfa86f27952a35b57dd525ed39396a227"],"sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2024-0433","license":"OSV · upstream source license applies","key":"osv:RUSTSEC-2024-0433","identifiers":["RUSTSEC-2024-0433","GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w","RUSTSEC-2024-0432"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}