Published: 17/06/2014 Updated: 08/01/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.9

VMScore: 356

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

APT prior to 1.0.4 does not properly validate source packages, which allows man-in-the-middle malicious users to download and install Trojan horse packages by removing the Release signature.

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Debian Bug report logs - #749795 apt: CVE-2014-0478: no authentication checks for source packages Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <deity@listsdebianorg>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 21:09:02 UTC Severity: ...

An attacker could trick APT into installing altered source packages ...

CWE-20 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2958 http://secunia.com/advisories/58843 http://secunia.com/advisories/59358 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2246-1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2246-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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