Protection mechanism failure in rustfs
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-693.
Summary
RustFS is a distributed object storage system built in Rust. Prior to 1.0.0-rc.1, RustFS Object Lock enforcement in crates/ecstore/src/bucket/object_lock/objectlock_sys.rs lets check_object_lock_for_deletion, delete_prefix, and lifecycle and scanner sweeps treat ConfigNotFound, unreadable .metadata.bin data, or unparseable metadata as no lock configuration, allowing objects under COMPLIANCE retention to be deleted or expired. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.0-rc.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA rustfs (rustfs) Fixed in 1.0.0-rc.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-73288
References
More rustfs vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-42382 RustFS has a gRPC Hardcoded Token Authentication Bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-32895 RustFS: Authentication bypass in /profile/cpu and /profile/memory allows unauthenticated access to profiling handlers CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-32892 RustFS: Hard-coded RSA private key in license verifier permits arbitrary license forgery CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2025-42176 RustFS Path Traversal Vulnerability CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-36822 RustFS Snowball Auto-Extract: Path Traversal allows cross-bucket object injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-32894 RustFS: ImportIam Allows Creation of Backdoor Service Accounts Under Any Parent Including Root CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
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