Rust advisories / daemonize
UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2025-0069 · daemonize
RUSTSEC-2025-0069: `daemonize` is Unmaintained
Short answerNot a bug report: daemonize is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. Plan to move to a maintained alternative.
| Crate | daemonize |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Every version. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2025-09-14 |
| Last changed | 2025-09-15 |
| 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-2025-0069"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i daemonize.
Details from the advisory
There hasn't been any activity happening for this crate since June 3, 2023. No interactions on pull requests. Issues are disabled for the repo.
Oldest PR sitting around without any interaction from the maintainer: knsd/daemonize#50
On February 14, 2024, a PR was made to correct some UB.
Efforts to contact the crate owner via email have been unsuccessful.
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/daemonize
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0069.html
- Report: github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/2279
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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