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Rust CVE-2024-24576 Explained: What Was This Security Advisory?


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The severity of this vulnerability was critical if you were invoking batch files on Windows with untrusted arguments.
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The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the Rust standard library did not properly escape arguments when invoking batch files (with the bat and cmd extensions) on Windows using the Command API.

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