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Dev · blog.rust-lang.org · Thursday, 20 August 2026

Compromised crate poisons arrayref: check your Rust deps now

Rust Security Response Team confirmed the proc-macro1 crate was malicious (a build script fetched a payload), deleted it and seven sibling crates, and found the popular arrayref had been republished to depend on it. Malicious versions like arrayref@0.3.10 (live 86 minutes) were yanked and removed; authors using these packages should audit their dependency caches.

Read the source: blog.rust-lang.org ↗In the 20 August issue →