{"id":"RUSTSEC-2024-0433","aliases":["GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w","RUSTSEC-2024-0432"],"title":"Malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities can cause arbitrary binary execution","summary":"Malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities can cause arbitrary binary execution","severity":"none","vendor":"age","product":"age","ecosystem":"rust","affected":["age >= 0.11.0, < 0.11.1"],"patched":["age 0.11.1"],"published":"2024-12-18","updated":"2026-10-12","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-12T18:00:12.403778948Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2024-0433","references":[{"url":"https://crates.io/crates/age"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0433.html"},{"url":"https://github.com/str4d/rage/commit/703152ecfa86f27952a35b57dd525ed39396a227"}],"tags":["osv","rust"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-13T11:45:30.172Z","slug":"RUSTSEC-2024-0433","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `age >= 0.11.0, < 0.11.1`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `age 0.11.1`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}