PT-2014-2171 · Canonical · Software Properties

D-- + 1 · Published 2014-05-14 · Updated 2014-05-14 · CVE-2011-4407

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Software Properties versions prior to 0.81.13.3

Description The issue concerns the failure to validate the server certificate when downloading PPA GPG key fingerprints. This allows man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to spoof GPG keys for a package repository.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.81.13.3, update to version 0.81.13.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4407

Affected Products

Software Properties

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4407 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1352-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/software-properties/%2Bbug/915210 · Note