What is CVE-2021-41149?

CVE-2021-41149 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Tough, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2021-10-19.

How severe is CVE-2021-41149?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Amazon Tough

CVE-2021-41149

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 specif…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.011 (61.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Amazon Tough
Awslabs Tough — versions < 0.12.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-41149?: CVE-2021-41149 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Tough, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2021-10-19.
How severe is CVE-2021-41149?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.