🛡️ GHSA-vgr2-r5hm-f6gf — sha-rst

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-506 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

sha-rst was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was used as a dependency by finch_cli_rust and finch-rst and contained a malware payload to exfiltrate credentials.

The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2025-12-08 and had been downloaded 22 times. Other than the other crates above that were part of the attack, no other crates depedended on this crate.

Thanks to Matthias Zepper of [NGI Sweden](https://ngisweden.scilifelab.se/) for reporting this to the crates.io team!

Weakness class

GHSA-vgr2-r5hm-f6gf is classified as CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code. The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

Affected software

GHSA-vgr2-r5hm-f6gf is recorded against 1 package.

  • sha-rst

Timeline and source

Published on 12 February 2026 and last revised on 13 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

rustsec.org (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-506
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-02-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sha-rst

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