CVE-2019-3462

high

Description

Incorrect sanitation of the 302 redirect field in HTTP transport method of apt versions 1.4.8 and earlier can lead to content injection by a MITM attacker, potentially leading to remote code execution on the target machine.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4371

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3863-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3863-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190125-0002/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106690

https://github.com/atilacastro/update-apt-package

https://github.com/tonejito/check_CVE-2019-3462

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00014.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00013.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-13101

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-01-28

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H