UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2018-0015 · term
RUSTSEC-2018-0015: term is looking for a new maintainer
Short answerNot a bug report: term is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. Plan to move to a maintained alternative.
| Crate | term |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Before 0.6.2. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2018-11-19 |
| Last changed | 2020-10-02 |
| Also known as | none |
What to do
- Look for a maintained fork or alternative crate.
- If you cannot move yet, acknowledge it in your audit config so CI stays green while you plan: add
"RUSTSEC-2018-0015"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i term.
Details from the advisory
The author of the term crate does not have time to maintain it and is looking for a new maintainer.
Some maintained alternatives you can potentially switch to instead, depending on your needs:
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/term
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0015.html
- Report: github.com/Stebalien/term/issues/93
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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