CVE-2012-0955 (GCVE-0-2012-0955)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-02 00:50 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:14
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Assigner
References
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1036839 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://code.launchpad.net/~cyphermox/software-pr… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical software-properties Affected: 0.92 , < 0.92 (custom)
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Credits
Marc Deslauriers
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