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CVE-2026-6968: Multiple Path Traversal Variants in awslabs/tough

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-24 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Incomplete path traversal fixes in awslabs/tough before tough-v0.22.0 allow remote authenticated users with delegated signing authority to write files outside intended output directories via absolute target names in copy_target/link_target, symlinked parent directories in save_target, or symlinked metadata filenames in SignedRole::write, because write paths trust the joined destination path without post-resolution containment verification. We recommend you upgrade to tough-v0.22.0 / tuftool-v0.15.0.

Affected products

• AWS tough: from 0.9.0 before 0.22.0 — fixed in 0.22.0
• AWS tuftool: before 0.15.0 — fixed in 0.15.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: AWS tough 0.22.0; AWS tuftool 0.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-019-aws/
• https://crates.io/crates/tough/0.22.0
• https://crates.io/crates/tuftool/0.15.0
• https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tough-v0.22.0
• https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tuftool-v0.15.0
• https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-v57p-gppj-p9vg

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