CVE-2026-6968 (GCVE-0-2026-6968)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 19:44 – Updated: 2026-04-24 20:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Multiple Path Traversal Variants in awslabs/tough
Summary
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We recommend you upgrade to tough-v0.22.0 / tuftool-v0.15.0.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-24 20:09 UTC
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
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|---|---|
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| https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tou… | patch |
| https://github.com/awslabs/tough/releases/tag/tuf… | patch |
| https://crates.io/crates/tough/0.22.0 | patch |
| https://crates.io/crates/tuftool/0.15.0 | patch |
| https://github.com/awslabs/tough/security/advisor… | third-party-advisory |
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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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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