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Vulnerability record · CVE-2025-2887 · published 27 March 2025

CVE-2025-2887: Amazon tough vulnerability

Amazon · Tough

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.

5.7 CVSS 4.0 Medium EPSS 0.33% · top 76.8% CWE-1025 · CWE-1025
5.7CVSS 4.0 base score
0.33%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
3References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-007/ Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tough-v0.20.0
https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisories/GHSA-q6r9-r9pw-4cf7 Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2025-2887), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.