CVE-2019-3462

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Incorrect sanitation of the 302 redirect field in HTTP transport method of apt versions 1.4.8 and earlier can lead to content injection by a MITM attacker, potentially leading to remote code execution on the target machine.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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	`1.8.0~alpha3.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.8.0~alpha3.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.8.0~alpha3.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.8.0~alpha3.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.8.0~alpha3.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3462

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

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