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

CVSS 3 base score: 8.1

Status

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



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (1.6.6ubuntu0.1)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (1.2.29ubuntu0.1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (1.0.1ubuntu2.19)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3462
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3863-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3863-2
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1812353

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