Vulnerability CVE-2011-3634
Published: 2014-02-28   Modified: 2014-03-01

Description:
methods/https.cc in apt before 0.8.11 accepts connections when the certificate host name fails validation and Verify-Host is enabled, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain repository credentials via unspecified vectors.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Debian -> APT 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/868353
https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=apt/apt.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1283-1
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-3634.html
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