Apt vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product337 versions
The short answer

Apt is made by Debian. We track 5 published vulnerabilities in it, across 337 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Apt, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Which Apt vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Apt's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Apt flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 4.5%

    apt-get in apt before 0.7.21 does not check for the correct error code from gpgv, which causes apt to treat a repository as valid even when it has been signed with a key that has been revoked or expired, which might...

    CVSS10.0Published21 Apr 2009
  2. 1.3%

    apt 0.8.16, 0.9.7, and possibly other versions does not properly handle InRelease files, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to modify packages before installation via unknown vectors, possibly related to...

    CVSS4.3Published21 Mar 2013
  3. 1.3%

    Missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT before version 2.1.2 could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files.

    CVSS5.5Published15 May 2020
  4. 0.4%

    The changelog command in Apt before 1.0.9.2 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the changelog file.

    CVSS3.6Published15 Oct 2014
  5. 0.4%

    Apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.x before 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.6, 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.x before 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.7, and 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.x before 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2, as used in Ubuntu, uses world-readable permissions for...

    CVSS2.1Published26 Dec 2012
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We track 5 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Apt, across 337 versions.

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