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RUSTSEC-2026-0259

arone was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

Reported
Issued
Package
arone
Type
Vulnerability
References
Patched
no patched versions

Description

We identified that arone contained malicious code executed through a build script.

This crate had 7 versions, with the most recent one being published at 2026-08-18. The crate was removed from crates.io on 2026-08-20 and the user account was locked.

This crate was used as part of a malware campaign targeted at users of arrayref, which was downloaded 2,285 times before being removed; see the arrayref advisory for more detail.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.