Failure to detect delegated target rollback in tough
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
During a target rollback, the client fails to detect the rollback for delegated targets. This could cause the client to fetch a target from an incorrect source, altering the target contents. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | tough | 0.1.0 to before 0.20.0 | 0.20.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | tough (crates.io) | before 0.20.0 | 0.20.0 | Patch available | GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 |
- tough VendorAWS Affected 0.1.0 to before 0.20.0 Fixed in 0.20.0 Patch available CNA
- tough (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.20.0 Fixed in 0.20.0 Patch available GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7
Remediation
- Fix · CNA tough (AWS) Fixed in 0.20.0
- Fix · GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 tough (crates.io) Fixed in 0.20.0 Advisory →
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Advisory ·
AWS tough — aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-007
4 records Highest priority Priority LOW 4 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2025-02523 Improper timestamp caching during snapshot rollback in toughPriority LOW 26
- TI-2025-02521 Terminating targets role delegations are not respected in toughPriority LOW 26
- TI-2025-02520 Root metadata version not validated in toughPriority LOW 26
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-2887
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7
References
Advisory 3
More AWS Tough vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-11868 Improper verification of signature threshold in tough CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2021-17989 Improper sanitization of delegated role names in tough CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2021-17988 Improper sanitization of target names in tough CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-06100 Multiple Path Traversal Variants in awslabs/tough CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-06099 Missing Delegated Metadata Validation in awslabs/tough CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-06098 Signature Threshold Bypass in awslabs/tough Delegated Roles CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.0
Sources
- CVE-2025-2887 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-2887 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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