Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
time-rs/time
main @ 8faa889
2
Fixes
2
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Malicious Dependency: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
Cargo.toml: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Malicious Dependency: The project had to explicitly pin its dependency on serde to block the execution of unverified pre-built binary blobs distributed in upstream versions, making dependency verification a priority.
Path Traversal: Unchecked date construction bypassing standard validations could lead to out-of-bounds component representation or logical path-traversal anomalies depending on how the date values are later integrated into path operations.
Stack Exhaustion: Recursive parsing of deprecated RFC 2822 format elements allows remote attackers to trigger stack exhaustion, resulting in a reliable denial of service.