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🛡️ GHSA-xp79-9mxw-878j — finch-rst

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

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

This attempts to typosquat the existing crate [finch](https://crates.io/crates/finch) to steal credentials from local files.

The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2025-12-08 and had been downloaded 21 times. There were no crates depending on this crate on crates.io.

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

Weakness class

GHSA-xp79-9mxw-878j is classified as CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code. The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

Affected software

GHSA-xp79-9mxw-878j is recorded against 1 package.

  • finch-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)

Other advisories for this package

finch-rst has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code) in other software:

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
finch-rst — —

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