GHSA-qp9x-wp8f-qgjj: tuf has platform-dependent delegation path matching
DelegatedRole._is_target_in_pathpattern uses fnmatch.fnmatch to decide whether a given target path is authorized by a delegation’s glob pattern.
Python’s fnmatch.fnmatch calls os.path.normcase() on both arguments before matching. On POSIX hosts normcase is the identity function; on Windows hosts os.path resolves to ntpath, whose normcase lowercases its input and replaces / with \.
As a result, python-tuf’s delegation path pattern matching is case-sensitive on Linux/macOS but case-INSENSITIVE on Windows. This makes the authorization decision for a target dependent on the host operating system of the client running the updater.
The result on Windows is a TUF specification violation in the python-tuf ngclient implementation.
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