CVE-2015-1330

medium

Published 2015-07-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Affected	—
14.10	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.86.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.86.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.86.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.86.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.86.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
debian	unattended-upgrades	`{"endIncluding":"0.86"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.