Auth bypass in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
CVE-2015-1330
unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.014 (70.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- Debian Unattended-upgrades
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@ubuntu.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@ubuntu.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)