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CVE-2021-41149

HIGH CVSS: 8.2 Published: 2021-10-19 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Amazon Tough

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References