Vulnerabilites related to Canonical - software-properties
CVE-2012-0955 (GCVE-0-2012-0955)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-02 00:50
Modified
2024-09-16 17:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
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.
References
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Impacted products
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| Canonical | software-properties |
Version: 0.92 < 0.92 |
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