CVE-2016-1252
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 7.3%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 5
1st PoCDec 14
exploitation probability
7.3%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
3 public exploit(s)
The apt package in Debian jessie before 1.0.9.8.4, in Debian unstable before 1.4~beta2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 1.0.1ubuntu2.17, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 1.2.15ubuntu0.2, and in Ubuntu 16.10 before 1.3.2ubuntu0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a repository-signing protection mechanism by leveraging improper error handling when validating InRelease file signatures.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40916/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40916unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.htmlhttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647467https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40916/http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3156-1