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RUSTSEC-2026-0040

tracing-ethers was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

Reported
Issued
Package
tracing-ethers (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Patched
no patched versions

Description

The tracing-ethers crate attempted to exfiltrate ssh keys to an app hosted on vercel.app

The malicious crate had 9 version published on 2026-03-09 approximately 5 days before removal and had no evidence of actual downloads. There were no crates depending on this crate on crates.io.

Thanks to the user killa for reporting this malicious crate.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.