GHSA-5q2r-92f9-4m49

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    GHSA-5q2r-92f9-4m49

    Published: 25 Aug 2021Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary: Improper verification of signature threshold in tough

    Details: ## 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](https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tough

    Purl: pkg:cargo/tough

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.7.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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