CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-4407

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-05-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-05-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• canonical software-properties (<= 0.81.13.1) • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References