Rust Secure Dependency Audit

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Overview

Rust Secure Dependency Audit is a comprehensive tool designed to ensure the integrity and security of your Rust software supply chain. It goes beyond simple vulnerability checking to provide a holistic "health score" for your dependencies, analyzing everything from license compliance to code footprint and maintainer activity.

The Status Quo

Rust's cargo-audit is excellent for finding known vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec database. However, security teams often need broader insights. Is a dependency maintained? Does it use a compatible license? Is it bloated? Currently, developers manually check crates.io or use scattered tools to gather this intelligence.

Market Proposition

This tool unifies dependency intelligence into a single report, suitable for enterprise compliance and security audits.

  • Health Scoring: Assigns a score (0-100) based on update frequency, open issues, and documentation quality.
  • License Compliance: Automatically detects non-permissive licenses (e.g., GPL in a proprietary project).
  • Footprint Analysis: Estimates the impact of dependencies on binary size and compile time.

Usage

// Add to your Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
rust_secure_dependency_audit = "0.2.1"

# Run the audit tool
cargo run --bin audit-tool -- --target ./my-project

Hashtags

#Rust #Security #Audit #OpenSource #SoftwareSupplyChain