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CVE-2019-3462

Published: 22 January 2019

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.

Priority

High

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
apt
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty
Released (1.0.1ubuntu2.19)
xenial
Released (1.2.29ubuntu0.1)
bionic
Released (1.6.6ubuntu0.1)
cosmic
Released (1.7.0ubuntu0.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H