Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Dec 31, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-35883

Description

An issue was discovered in the mozwire crate through 2020-08-18 for Rust. A ../ directory-traversal situation allows overwriting local files that have .conf at the end of the filename.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mozwirecrates.io	< 0.5.0	0.5.0

Affected products

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pkg:cargo/mozwire
Range: < 0.5.0

Patches

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References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vhw-4rw7-jfpvghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35883ghsaADVISORY
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0030.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryWEB
github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/issues/14ghsaWEB
github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/pull/17/commits/dd0639bf2876773b66382f47285f7db701f628d9ghsaWEB

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