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Merge branch 'nickez/vendor-stm32-rust-crate'

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Niklas Dusenlund

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Merge branch 'nickez/vendor-stm32-rust-crate'
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds vendored copies of two Rust embedded-crates (cortex-m-rt and its companion macro crate) plus a large auto-generated STM32U5 peripheral access crate to the BitBox02 firmware repository. Vendoring means the project is no longer fetching these libraries from the public crates registry at build time; instead it uses its own frozen copy. The change itself is a build-system/dependency-management refactor. There is no direct evidence in the commit message or diff that this fixes a known security vulnerability, but vendoring can affect how future upstream security patches are applied and the STM32 register definitions are security-relevant because they control hardware protections (TrustZone, debug, flash, etc.).

Recommended action

Treat this as a supply-chain/maintenance change rather than an active vulnerability. Verify the vendored crates match the published upstream versions (e.g., compare .cargo-checksum.json and crate contents with crates.io releases 0.7.5 of cortex-m-rt and the corresponding stm32u5 PAC version). Review whether the project has a documented process to track and apply upstream security advisories for vendored dependencies, especially cortex-m-rt and the STM32 PAC. If the vendoring was done to pin a version containing a security fix, request the vendor to document that rationale and any associated advisory.

Security signals we found

01

Vendoring of upstream runtime crates can freeze security-relevant code; future upstream advisories for cortex-m-rt or stm32u5 must be manually backported.

02

cortex-m-rt v0.7.5 changelog references historical security-relevant fixes (stack pointer 8-byte alignment, HardFault handler correctness, .data/.bss overflow checks), but this commit does not state it is adopting the crate for those reasons.

03

The STM32U5 PAC exposes security-critical peripherals (DBGMCU, FLASH, TZIC, GTZC, etc.); any bugs or malicious modifications in the vendored register definitions could affect hardware security configuration, but no such modifications are visible in the supplied diff.

04

No explicit security relevance, CVE, or researcher attribution is present in the commit metadata or diff.

Risk score

Why this scored 22/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 4/10
Evidence quality 2/5
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