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CVE-2012-0955

software-properties incorrectly validated TLS certificates

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.92
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Canonical software-properties

    From 0.92 · fixed in 0.92

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