Vulnerability Details CVE-2012-0955
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 32.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.8
CVSS v2 Score 5.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2012-0955
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cpe:2.3:a:canonical:software-properties:-
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cpe:2.3:a:canonical:software-properties:0.81.13.1
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cpe:2.3:a:canonical:software-properties:0.81.13.3