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GHSA-5q2r-92f9-4m49
No affected components available
Impact
The tough library, prior to 0.7.1, does not properly verify the uniqueness of keys in the signatures provided to meet the threshold of cryptographic signatures. It allows someone with access to a valid signing key to create multiple valid signatures in order to circumvent TUF requiring a minimum threshold of unique keys before the metadata is considered valid.
AWS would like to thank Erick Tryzelaar of the Google Fuchsia Team for reporting this issue.
Patches
A fix is available in version 0.7.1.
Workarounds
No workarounds to this issue are known.
References
CVE-2020-6174 is assigned to the same issue in the TUF reference implementation.
https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/pull/974 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6174
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, contact AWS Security at aws-security@amazon.com.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data.
Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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