RUSTSEC-2022-0048: xml-rs is Unmaintained

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
security

Research direction

Start with the RUSTSEC-2022-0048 advisory and search the repository's Cargo manifests for xml-rs. Trace any uses of the dependency and review the listed quick-xml alternative. Done means the unmaintained dependency is addressed and the relevant project checks 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

See advisory page for additional details.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
28
Forks
8
Avg merge
2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

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