CVE-2016-10099

medium

Published 2017-01-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Borg (aka BorgBackup) before 1.0.9 has a flaw in the cryptographic protocol used to authenticate the manifest (list of archives), potentially allowing an attacker to spoof the list of archives.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.0.9-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.0.9-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.0.9-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.0.9-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.0.9-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
borg_project	borg	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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