CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0478
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
APT before 1.0.4 does not properly validate source packages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to download and install Trojan horse packages by removing the Release signature.
Affected configurations
• debian advanced package tool (<= 1.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58843 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59358 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2958 www.debian.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2246-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58843 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59358 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2958 www.debian.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2246-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795 Exploit