CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15709

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Versions of add-apt-repository before 0.98.9.2, 0.96.24.32.14, 0.96.20.10, and 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1~esm1, printed a PPA (personal package archive) description to the terminal as-is, which allowed PPA owners to provide ANSI terminal escapes to modify terminal contents in unexpected ways.

Affected configurations

• canonical add-apt-repository (>= 0.92.37.0 < 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1\~esm1) • canonical add-apt-repository (>= 0.96.20.0 < 0.96.20.10) • canonical add-apt-repository (>= 0.96.24.32.0 < 0.96.24.32.14) • canonical add-apt-repository (>= 0.98.9.0 < 0.98.9.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References