Advisories for Cargo/Nats package

2023

NATS TLS certificate common name validation bypass

The NATS official Rust clients are vulnerable to MitM when using TLS. A fix for the nats crate hasn't been released yet. Since the nats crate is going to be deprecated anyway, consider switching to async-nats >= 0.29 which already fixed this vulnerability. The common name of the server's TLS certificate is validated against the hostname provided by the server's plaintext INFO message during the initial connection setup phase. A …