FKIE_CVE-2012-0955

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-12-02 01:15 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:38
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://code.launchpad.net/~cyphermox/software-properties/lp1036839/+merge/119753Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1036839Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://code.launchpad.net/~cyphermox/software-properties/lp1036839/+merge/119753Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://launchpad.net/bugs/1036839Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical software-properties *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:38:34.430",
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