CVE-2021-41149: Amazon Tough

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 specific targets to an output directory. When targets are cached or saved, files could be overwritten with arbitrary content anywhere on the system. A fix is available in version 0.12.0. No workarounds to this issue are known.

Affected products

• Amazon Tough: before 0.12.0 (fixed in 0.12.0)

Published 2021-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.