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GHSA-V4WR-J3W6-MXQC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-28 22:13 – Updated: 2025-10-14 21:58

Summary

tough terminating targets role delegations are not respected

Details

Summary

Delegations are a mechanism defined by the TUF specification that allow multiple different identities to provide and sign content within a single repository. Terminating delegations and delegation priority give a TUF repository unambiguous control over how overlapping delegations are resolved. tough erroneously will not terminate a search as required, and will accept information from a lower-priority delegation that should have been ignored.

Impact

When interacting with TUF repositories that use delegations, the tough client could fetch targets owned by the incorrect role. An actor which had delegated ownership of a subset of a TUF repository could provide arbitrary contents to tough clients for targets owned by the delegating identity.

Impacted versions: < v0.20.0

Patches

A fix for this issue is available in tough version 0.20.0 and later. Customers are advised to upgrade to version 0.20.0 or later and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Workarounds

There is no recommended work around. Customers are advised to upgrade to version 0.20.0 or the latest version.

References

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory we ask that you contact AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page [1] or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

[1] Vulnerability reporting page: https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting

Acknowledgement

These issues were identified by the TUF-Conformance project. We would like to thank Google for collaborating on this issue through the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process.

Severity ?

4.2 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

5.7 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2025-2886 (GCVE-0-2025-2886)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 22:22 – Updated: 2025-10-14 18:23

Title

Terminating targets role delegations are not respected in tough

Summary

Missing validation of terminating delegation causes the client to continue searching the defined delegation list, even after searching a terminating delegation. This could cause the client to fetch a target from an incorrect source, altering the target contents. Users should upgrade to tough version 0.20.0 or later and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Severity ?

5.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-670 - Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

Assigner

AMZN

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisor…	vendor-advisory
	https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletin…	vendor-advisory
	https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tou…	patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	AWS	tough	Affected: 0.1.0 , < 0.20.0 (semver)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-V4WR-J3W6-MXQC

Summary

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

References

Acknowledgement

CVE-2025-2886 (GCVE-0-2025-2886)

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