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RUSTSEC-2022-0048: xml-rs is Unmaintained

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by locating the dependency declaration for xml-rs 0.8.4 and checking which code paths use it. Review the named quick-xml alternative and the affected parsing checks; done means the unmaintained dependency concern is addressed and relevant tests or validation pass.

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Description

xml-rs is Unmaintained

Details
Status unmaintained
Package xml-rs
Version 0.8.4
URL https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/issues
Date 2022-01-26

xml-rs is a XML parser has open issues around parsing including integer
overflows / panics that may or may not be an issue with untrusted data.

Together with these open issues with Unmaintained status xml-rs
may or may not be suited to parse untrusted data.

Alternatives

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Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
7

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