Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-0955
high
Description
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
https://code.launchpad.net/~cyphermox/software-properties/lp1036839/+merge/119753