CVE-2021-41149 (GCVE-0-2021-41149)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-19 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Improper sanitization of target names in tough
Summary
Tough provides a set of Rust libraries and tools for using and generating the update framework (TUF) repositories. The tough library, prior to 0.12.0, does not properly sanitize target names when caching a repository, or when saving specific targets to an output directory. When targets are cached or saved, files could be overwritten with arbitrary content anywhere on the system. A fix is available in version 0.12.0. No workarounds to this issue are known.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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