CVE-2011-0725

MEDIUM 4.9CVE-2011-0725 · Published 23/02/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-0725 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.9) vulnerability affecting aptdaemon (sebastian heinlein).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
aptdaemon sebastian_heinlein	`= 0.40`	No fix yet

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the org.debian.apt.UpdateCachePartially method in worker.py in Aptdaemon 0.40 in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the sources_list argument, related to the D-Bus interface.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/46490
securitytracker.com/id
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1068-1 · Vendor Advisory
vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0459 · Vendor Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722228
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65652

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