In both clients (tuf/client
and tuf/ngclient
), there is a path traversal vulnerability that in the worst case can overwrite files ending in .json
anywhere on the client system on a call to get_one_valid_targetinfo()
. It occurs because the rolename is used to form the filename, and may contain path traversal characters (ie ../../name.json
).
The impact is mitigated by a few facts:
A fix is available in version 0.19 or newer.
None that do not require code changes. Clients can restrict the allowed character set for rolenames, or they can store metadata in files named in a way that is not vulnerable: neither of these approaches is possible without modifying python-tuf.
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