CVE-2020-15163 (GCVE-0-2020-15163)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-09 17:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Invalid root may become trusted root in The Update Framework (TUF)
Summary
Python TUF (The Update Framework) reference implementation before version 0.12 it will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata (i.e. by a person-in-the-middle attack) culminating in a version which has not been correctly signed to control the trust chain for future updates. This is fixed in version 0.12 and newer.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/securit… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/pull/885 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/release… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://pypi.org/project/tuf | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/commit/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| theupdateframework | tuf |
Affected:
< 0.12
|
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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