CVE-2015-1330

medium
Published 2015-07-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1330

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.86.1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.86.1
debian debianforkyfixed0.86.1
debian debiansidfixed0.86.1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.86.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
debian debianunattended-upgrades{"endIncluding":"0.86"}

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.