CVE-2025-2885

Root metadata version not validated in tough

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Mar 27, 2025
Updated: Oct 14, 2025
Reserved: Mar 27, 2025

Description

Missing validation of the root metatdata version number could allow an actor to supply an arbitrary version number to the client instead of the intended version in the root metadata file, altering the version fetched by the client. Users should upgrade to tough version 0.20.0 or later and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	AMZN

Weaknesses

CWE-1288 Improper Validation of Consistency within Input

Affected Products

Product	Versions
toughAWS	0.1.0 to before 0.20.0Affected

References

https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-5vmp-m5v2-hx47vendor-advisory
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-007/vendor-advisory
https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tough-v0.20.0patch

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