CVE-2017-7443

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Published 2017-04-05 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

apt-cacher before 1.7.15 and apt-cacher-ng before 3.4 allow HTTP response splitting via encoded newline characters, related to lack of blocking for the %0[ad] regular expression.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.7.15`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.7.15`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.7.15`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.7.15`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.7.15`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apt-cacher-ng_project	apt-cacher-ng	`{"endIncluding":"3.3"}`
apt-cacher_project	apt-cacher	`{"endIncluding":"1.7.13"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-113

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

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