Rust advisories / unic-char-range
UnmaintainedRUSTSEC-2025-0075 · unic-char-range
RUSTSEC-2025-0075: `unic-char-range` is unmaintained
Short answerNot a bug report: unic-char-range is no longer maintained, so future security issues will not be fixed. Plan to move to a maintained alternative.
| Crate | unic-char-range |
|---|---|
| Type | Unmaintained |
| Affected versions | Every version. |
| Fixed in | not applicable (the crate is unmaintained) |
| Severity | not scored |
| Published | 2025-10-18 |
| Last changed | 2025-10-22 |
| 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-2025-0075"toignorein.cargo/audit.tomlordeny.toml, with a comment saying why. - Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i unic-char-range.
Details from the advisory
All Unicode crates that are part of https://github.com/open-i18n/rust-unic are unmaintained.
Recommended alternatives
- Since version 1.45.0 Rust supports using
charwithops::{Range, RangeFrom, RangeFull, RangeInclusive, RangeTo}to iterate over a range of codepoints.
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/unic-char-range
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0075.html
- Report: github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/2414
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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