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`finch-rst` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 12, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 12, 2026

Package

cargo finch-rst (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0

Patched versions

None

Description

This attempts to typosquat the existing crate finch to steal credentials from local files.

The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2025-12-08 and had been downloaded 21 times. There were no crates depending on this crate on crates.io.

Thanks to Matthias Zepper of NGI Sweden for reporting this to the crates.io team!

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 12, 2026
Reviewed Feb 12, 2026
Last updated Feb 12, 2026

Severity

Critical

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Embedded Malicious Code

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-xp79-9mxw-878j

Source code

No known source code
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