DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0955
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955
Upstream
Published
2020-12-02T01:15:11.797Z
Modified
2026-04-28T20:07:43.639716Z
Severity
  • 7.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / software-properties

Package

Name
software-properties
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/software-properties?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.92.25debian1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955.json"

Debian:12 / software-properties

Package

Name
software-properties
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/software-properties?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.92.25debian1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0955.json"