CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1330
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-07-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• debian unattended-upgrades (<= 0.86)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog metadata.ftp-master.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog metadata.ftp-master.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297 www.debian.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1 www.ubuntu.com