# CVE-2021-41149: Improper sanitization of target names in tough

- Also known as: GHSA-X3R5-Q6MJ-M485
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.12.0
- Published: 2021-10-19 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- awslabs tough: fixed in 0.12.0
- tough (crates.io): fixed in 0.12.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on awslabs tough, tough, upgrade to a fixed version (0.12.0) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-x3r5-q6mj-m485
- https://github.com/awslabs/tough/commit/1809b9bd1106d78a51fbea3071aa97a3530bac9a

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