CVE-2015-1330

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
Debian Unattended-Upgrades: through 0.86

References

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1

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