Information Exposure Affecting apt package, versions [,0.8.16)[,0.8.16)[0.9.7.0,0.9.7.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APT-2370767
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-0961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apt to version 0.8.16, 0.8.16, 0.9.7.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Apt 0.8.16exp5ubuntu13.x before 0.8.16exp5ubuntu13.6, 0.8.16exp12ubuntu10.x before 0.8.16exp12ubuntu10.7, and 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.x before 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2, as used in Ubuntu, uses world-readable permissions for /var/log/apt/term.log, which allows local users to obtain sensitive shell information by reading the log file.

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