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Security history · failure · data from Oct 24, 2026
Is failure safe to use? Its security history
VerdictUnmaintained. RustSec marked failure unmaintained (RUSTSEC-2020-0036), so new security bugs will not be fixed.
2advisories on record
0vulnerabilities
1unmaintained notices
nonenewest fixed version
Every advisory, newest first
- Unmaintained CriticalRUSTSEC-2020-0036 · 2020-05-02failure is officially deprecated/unmaintained
- Unsound CriticalRUSTSEC-2019-0036 · 2019-11-13Type confusion if __private_get_type_id__ is overridden
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RustSec advisories (CC0-1.0) and GitHub-reviewed advisories via OSV's crates.io export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026.
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