harden cargo invocation: remove reliance on $CARGO #1103
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Currently cbindgen looks up the
CARGO
environment variable and falls back to"cargo"
if unset. This means any process that can influence the environment (e.g. by settingCARGO=/tmp/evil
) could cause cbindgen to run an arbitrary binary with the privileges of the invoking process.This patch changes the callsites in
cargo_expand.rs
andcargo_metadata.rs
to invoke"cargo"
directly instead of honoring$CARGO
.The call sites are linked below:
src/bindgen/cargo/cargo_expand.rs:72
: Linksrc/bindgen/cargo/cargo_metadata.rs:234
: LinkBenefits:
$CARGO
may be attacker-controlled (e.g. services, CI).Potential trade-off:
CARGO
to point to a non-default binary will no longer be respected. If that compatibility is important, an alternative would be to validate$CARGO
rather than ignore it completely.