Cryptographic Issues Affecting borgbackup package, versions <1.0.9-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BORGBACKUP-518600
  • published2 Jan 2017
  • disclosed2 Jan 2017

Introduced: 2 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-10099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 borgbackup to version 1.0.9-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream borgbackup package and not the borgbackup package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Borg (aka BorgBackup) before 1.0.9 has a flaw in the cryptographic protocol used to authenticate the manifest (list of archives), potentially allowing an attacker to spoof the list of archives.