CVE-2015-1337 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1337?

CVE-2015-1337 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Oct 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Simple Streams (simplestreams) does not properly verify the GPG signatures of disk image files, which allows remote mirror servers to spoof disk images and have unspecified other impact via a 403 (aka Forbidden) response.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1337?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Simpestreams Project Simplestreams.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1337?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2015-1337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-r4f6-cvp5-f9ch, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1337, USN-2746-1.