CVE-2015-1330 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1330?

CVE-2015-1330 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1330?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Unattended-Upgrades.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1330?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2015-1330 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1330 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1330, DLA-267-1, DSA-3297-1, GHSA-w287-vj32-44rv, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1330, USN-2657-1.