Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-0478 First vendor Publication 2014-06-17
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2020-01-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0478

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24475
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24475
Title: USN-2246-1 -- apt vulnerability
Description: An attacker could trick APT into installing altered source packages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2246-1
CVE-2014-0478
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): apt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25036
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25036
Title: DSA-2958-1 apt - security update
Description: Jakub Wilk discovered that APT, the high level package manager, did not properly perform authentication checks for source packages downloaded via "apt-get source". This only affects use cases where source packages are downloaded via this command; it does not affect regular Debian package installation and upgrading.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2958-1
CVE-2014-0478
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): apt
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 79

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-18 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2246-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2958.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2958
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/58843
http://secunia.com/advisories/59358
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2246-1

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:29:34
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2021-04-22 01:35:49
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2020-05-23 01:50:49
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2020-05-23 00:39:29
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2017-12-22 09:21:07
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2017-12-21 12:02:37
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2016-04-27 00:06:11
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2014-06-26 09:24:03
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2014-06-21 09:25:02
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2014-06-19 13:22:59
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2014-06-17 21:24:41
  • First insertion