UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2024-0375 · atty
RUSTSEC-2024-0375: `atty` is unmaintained
Short answerNot a bug report: atty is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. The advisory points to atty as the replacement.
| Crate | atty |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Every version. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2024-09-25 |
| Last changed | 2024-09-26 |
| Also known as | none |
What to do
- Move to atty (our data on it).
- If you cannot move yet, acknowledge it in your audit config so CI stays green while you plan: add
"RUSTSEC-2024-0375"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i atty.
Details from the advisory
The maintainer of atty has published an official notice that the crate is no longer under development, and that users should instead rely on the functionality in the standard library's IsTerminal trait.
Alternative(s)
- std::io::IsTerminal - Stable since Rust 1.70.0 and the recommended replacement per the
attymaintainer. - is-terminal - Standalone crate supporting Rust older than 1.70.0
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/atty
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0375.html
- Report: github.com/softprops/atty/issues/57
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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