Executive Summary

Summary
Title APT vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3746-1 First vendor Publication 2018-08-20
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-08-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

An attacker could trick APT into installing altered packages.

Software Description: - apt: Advanced front-end for dpkg

Details:

It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled the mirror method (mirror://). If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages in environments configured to use mirror:// entries.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
apt 1.6.3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3746-1
CVE-2018-0501

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.3ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3746-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 145
Os 1

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Date Informations
2019-01-17 21:21:36
  • Multiple Updates
2019-01-08 00:19:00
  • First insertion