{"id":"CVE-2021-41149","aliases":["EUVD-2021-2271","GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485"],"status":"published","title":"Improper sanitization of target names in tough","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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.01113,"percentile":0.66415,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-22"],"published":"2021-10-19T18:00:12Z","modified":"2026-11-07T02:45:04Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"tough","fixed_in":["0.12.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"tough","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.12.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"crates.io","package":"tough","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.12.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"amazon","product":"tough"},{"vendor":"aws","product":"tough"},{"vendor":"awslabs","product":"tough"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/awslabs/tough/commit/1809b9bd1106d78a51fbea3071aa97a3530bac9a","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41149","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485"},{"url":"https://github.com/awslabs/tough","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41149","title":"Improper sanitization of target names in tough","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.","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T18:00:12Z","modified":"2024-08-04T02:59:31.624Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:59.430294Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2021-2271","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.","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T18:00:12Z","modified":"2024-08-04T02:59:31Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T03:24:19.242491Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485","title":"Improper sanitization of target names","description":"### Impact\nThe 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.\n\nAWS would like to thank https://github.com/jku for reporting this issue.\n\n### Patches\nA fix is available in version 0.12.0.\n\n### Workarounds\nNo workarounds to this issue are known.\n","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T20:16:15Z","modified":"2023-02-01T05:06:29Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:39.086869Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41149","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.","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T18:15:08.093Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:07:58.39Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":8.5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:00.137719Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41149","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.","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T18:15:08.093Z","modified":"2026-11-07T02:45:04.574073429Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-07T03:07:46.740537Z"},{"id":"GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485","title":"Improper sanitization of target names","description":"### Impact\nThe 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.\n\nAWS would like to thank https://github.com/jku for reporting this issue.\n\n### Patches\nA fix is available in version 0.12.0.\n\n### Workarounds\nNo workarounds to this issue are known.\n","status":"published","published":"2021-10-19T20:16:15Z","modified":"2026-07-08T06:27:45.360550496Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:59.484835Z"}]}}