unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 12.04 (including) | 12.04 (including) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 14.04 (including) | 14.04 (including) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 14.10 (including) | 14.10 (including) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 15.04 (including) | 15.04 (including) |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | utopic | * |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | vivid | * |
| Unattended-upgrades | Ubuntu | vivid/stable-phone-overlay | * |