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software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the...

High severity Unreviewed Published Apr 23, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 2, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 23, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.215%
(60th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-0955

GHSA ID

GHSA-47v9-xw5c-g56f

Source code

No known source code

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