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Ubuntu Python-apt: vulnerabilities and CVEs
Ubuntu Python-apt has 3 published vulnerabilities, 1 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
CVEs3
Last 12 months1
Critical0
Actively exploited0
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Latest vulnerabilities
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-6966 | Medium (6.9) | 0.14% | — | Dec 5, 2025 | NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key. |
| CVE-2019-15796 | Medium (4.7) | 0.51% | — | Mar 26, 2020 | Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in `Version.fetch_binary()` and `Version.fetch_source()` of apt/package.py or in `_fetch_archives()` of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows… |
| CVE-2019-15795 | Medium (4.7) | 0.45% | — | Mar 26, 2020 | python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in `Version.fetch_binary()` and `Version.fetch_source()` of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could… |