| # advisories |
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| The advisories check is used to detect issues for crates by looking in an advisory database. |
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| ```bash |
| cargo deny check advisories |
| ``` |
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| ## Use Case - Detecting security vulnerabilities |
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| Security vulnerabilities are generally considered "not great" by most people, luckily, Rust has a great [advisory database](https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db) which cargo-deny can use to check that you don't have any crates with (known) security vulnerabilities. |
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| You can also use your own advisory databases instead of, or in addition to, the above default, as long as it follows the same format. |
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| ## Use Case - Detecting unmaintained crates |
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| The [advisory database](https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db) also contains advisories for unmaintained crates, which in most cases users will want to avoid in favor of more actively maintained crates. |
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| ## Example output |
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