CVE-2015-1330 — 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

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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

Published Jul 1, 2015

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.44%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.44% 0.01435

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01435

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.44% (0.01435)	72.14th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.44% (0.01435)	69.54th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00072)	19.38th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.15% (0.00154)	53.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 14, 2024	0.15% (0.00154)	51.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.15% (0.00154)	49.87th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.02% (0.01018)	40.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	38.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	36.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	19.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

References (4)

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

Link	Providers	Tags
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades_0.86.1_changelog		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032738		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2657-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner canonical

Published Jul 1, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 22, 2015

Link CVE-2015-1330

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-1330

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-1330