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The Rust Foundation has published its first security initiatives report, detailing recent Rust security focus areas, milestones, and upcoming initiatives. The Rust Foundation's Security Initiative was created in September 2022 to support and advance the state of security within the Rust programming language ecosystem.
The announcement notes that the security program's achievements so far include:
- Significant progress has been made towards a complete security audit of the Rust ecosystem
- Completed multiple threat models to enable the Rust Foundation and the Rust project to better understand risks identified by security audits
- Several new tools were developed to enhance Rust maintainers' security workflow and gain deeper insight into vulnerabilities, including Painter.
- crates.io technical debt reduction and API token improvements
The Rust team's goal this year is to enhance insight into crate security and highlight information related to it. Their immediate focus is software supply chain security, and they are working with the Rust Foundation and the crates.io team. Work involved disclosing individual crate security information, including leak assessment, identifying malicious crates, and creating security best practice scoring models.
So far, the team has not encountered any actively malicious crates. However, according to the report, they have seen several cases of compromised credentials and have taken proactive steps to contact affected crate owners to resolve the issue.
In addition, the Rust Foundation and Rust Project have undertaken threat modeling efforts to gain a deeper understanding of the risks highlighted in security audits. The development of the four different threat models involved collaboration with various internal teams as well as external stakeholders, including the crates.io team, infrastructure team, security response working group, and secure code working group. Details of all these threat models are expected to be shared with the community in the near future.
More details can be found in the full report .