CVE-2012-0955

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.4 High

Status

Modified - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2020-12-02

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected products

• Software-properties (Canonical)

References

• https://code.launchpad.net/~cyphermox/software-properties/lp1036839/+merge/119753
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1036839