Report: Breaking: CVE-2026-6967 - Missing Delegated Metadata Validation in awslabs/tough

Report: Breaking: CVE-2026-6967 - Missing Delegated Metadata Validation in awslabs/tough

CVE ID :CVE-2026-6967 Published : April 24, 2026, 8:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 40 minutes ago Description :Missing expiration, hash, and length enforcement in delegated metadata validation in awslabs/tough before tough-v0.22.0 allows remote authenticated users with delegated signing authority to bypass TUF specification integrity checks for delegated targets metadata and poison the local metadata cache, because load_delegations does not apply the same validation checks as the top-level targets metadata path. We recommend you upgrade to tough-v0.22.0 / tuftool-v0.15.0. Severity: 7.1 | HIGH Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more...

CVE Details

Severity
HIGH
Published
April 24, 2026
Attack Vector: local