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high 8.1

CVE-2019-3462 in the critical feed json

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…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13101

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.6%
EPSS 14.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • debian advanced_package_tool 1.2.30
  • apt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.0~alpha3.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-3462

  • apt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.0.1ubuntu2.19
  • apt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.2.29ubuntu0.1
  • apt Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.6.6ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3462

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-3462 updated cvss 7.4

apt: Code injection through HTTP redirect

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

14.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Debian GNU/Linux apt as used in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu

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