GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485 Improper sanitization of target names

HIGH Published 2021-10-19 Modified 2021-10-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-41149
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
tough
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22
Reviewed
2021-10-19

Affected packages

• crates.io tough: < 0.12.0 → fixed in 0.12.0

Description

Impact 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. AWS would like to thank https://github.com/jku for reporting this issue. Patches A fix is available in version 0.12.0. Workarounds No workarounds to this issue are known.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-41149 Tough provides a set of Rust libraries and tools for using and generating the update framework (TUF) repositories. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References