Rust advisories / libusb
UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2016-0004 · libusb
RUSTSEC-2016-0004: libusb is unmaintained; use rusb instead
Short answerNot a bug report: libusb is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. The advisory points to rusb as the replacement.
| Crate | libusb |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Before 0.3.1. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2016-09-10 |
| Last changed | 2020-10-02 |
| Also known as | none |
What to do
- Move to rusb.
- If you cannot move yet, acknowledge it in your audit config so CI stays green while you plan: add
"RUSTSEC-2016-0004"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i libusb.
Details from the advisory
The libusb crate has not seen a release since September 2016, and its author is unresponsive.
The rusb crate is a maintained fork:
https://github.com/a1ien/rusb
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/libusb
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2016-0004.html
- Report: github.com/dcuddeback/libusb-rs/issues/33
From the RustSec Advisory Database (CC0-1.0) via the OSV export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026. Severity score computed from the published CVSS vector.
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