Information Exposure Affecting apt package, versions [,0.8.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APT-3003948
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Mar 2014

CVE-2011-3634  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apt to version 0.8.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure methods/https.cc in apt before 0.8.11 accepts connections when the certificate host name fails validation and Verify-Host is enabled, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain repository credentials via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Scores

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