GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 tough failure to detect delegated target rollback
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-2887
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- tough
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1025
- Reviewed
- 2025-03-28
Affected packages
• crates.io tough: < 0.20.0 → fixed in 0.20.0
Description
Summary
When updating the snapshot role, TUF clients should ensure that any previously encountered targets or delegated targets metadata files continue to be present in new snapshot metadata files. Likewise, the new targets and delegated targets metadata versions must be greater than or equal to the previously encountered versions. While tough will perform this check for targets metadata files, it did not perform this check for delegated targets files.
Impact
tough could fail to detect cases where delegated targets metadata was removed or rolled back to a previous version. As a result, tough could trust and download outdated targets that it should reject.
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 [email protected]. 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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-2887 During a target rollback, the client fails to detect the rollback for delegated targets. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1025 Comparison Using Wrong Factors weakness
References
- https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2887 advisory
- https://github.com/awslabs/tough/commit/3345151a87c358d1ce43aeb7e8b3ebea5ebdbab4 web
- https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-007 web
- https://github.com/awslabs/tough package
- https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tough-v0.20.0 web