CVE-2012-0962

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2012-0962 · Published 26/12/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-0962 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting aptdaemon (sebastian heinlein).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
aptdaemon sebastian_heinlein	`= 0.43`	No fix yet

Description

Aptdaemon 0.43 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 LTS uses short IDs when importing PPA GPG keys from a keyserver, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary package repository GPG keys via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

References

secunia.com/advisories/51627 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/56959
securitytracker.com/id · Patch
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1666-1 · Patch
bugs.launchpad.net/software-center-agent/%2Bbug/1052789

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