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CVE-2022-36114

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-36114 affects Cargo, the package manager for Rust, allowing an attacker to craft a "zip bomb" package that exhausts disk space when downloaded from an alternate registry. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, requiring user interaction. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking public exploit code, the community has shown some awareness. Rust 1.64 will include a fix, but users are advised to trust dependencies due to inherent build-time code execution capabilities in Cargo.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.65.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rust-lang:cargo:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0082 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19671-17084
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 rust 1.75.0-14 on Azure Linux 3.0
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cargoFixed in: 0.65.0
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cargoFixed in: 0.67.0

Vendor Advisories (2)

rustGHSA-2hvr-h6gw-qrxpmedium

Cargo extracting malicious crates can fill the file system

Sep 16, 2022
microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-36114

Extracting malicious crates can fill the file system

Sep 13, 2022

References

github.com / rust-lang/cargo/commit/d1f9553c825f6d7481453be8d58d0e7f117988a7
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / rust-lang/cargo/security/advisories/GHSA-2hvr-h6gw-qrxp
MitigationThird Party Advisory