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Summary: This article discusses a critical vulnerability in the Rust standard library that allows threat actors to execute arbitrary code on Windows systems.

Threat Actor: Unknown | Unknown
Victim: Windows systems | Windows

Key Point :

  • A critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-24576) in the Rust standard library allows threat actors to execute arbitrary code on Windows systems.
  • The vulnerability occurs due to improper escaping of arguments when invoking batch files using the Command API.
April 11, 2024

The vulnerability, which carries a perfect 10 base severity score, is tracked as CVE-2024-24576. It affects the Rust standard library, which was found to be improperly escaping arguments when invoking batch files on Windows using the Command API.

Source: https://cyware.com/cyber-security-news-articles


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