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RUSTSEC-2020-0024

Improper uniqueness verification of signature threshold

Reported
Issued
Package
tough (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Aliases
References
CVSS Score
8.6 HIGH
CVSS Details
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Patched
  • >=0.7.1

Description

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.

A fix is available in version 0.7.1.

CVE-2020-6174 is assigned to the same issue in the TUF reference implementation.

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, contact AWS Security at aws-security@amazon.com.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.