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CVE-2012-0955

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CVE-2012-0955

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.8

MEDIUM

Description

software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.

VendorProductVersions

Canonical

software-properties

affected
0.92 - < 0.92

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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