Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
actix/actix-net
main @ 094fa1e
2
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Insecure Dependency: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
Cargo.toml: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Memory Corruption: The use of unsafe UTF-8 conversion functions on unsanitized percent-encoded URL paths can result in memory corruption and undefined behavior when handling malformed input. This is critical for HTTP routing components that parse untrusted user input directly.
Insecure Dependency: Depending on vulnerable versions of cryptographic or transport security crates like rustls-webpki compromises TLS session establishment and validation, potentially allowing man-in-the-middle attacks.