CVE-2011-4407 (GCVE-0-2011-4407)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-14 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:09
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Summary
ppa.py in Software Properties before 0.81.13.3 does not validate the server certificate when downloading PPA GPG key fingerprints, which allows man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to spoof GPG keys for a package repository.
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