Vulnerability in Hex Package Manager Allows Undetected Package Modifications and Code Execution

Vulnerability in Hex Package Manager Allows Undetected Package Modifications and Code Execution

CVE-2019-1000012 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Hex package manager version 0.14.0 through 0.18.2 contains a Signing oracle vulnerability in Package registry verification that can result in Package modifications not detected, allowing code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via victim fetches packages from malicious/compromised mirror. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 0.19.

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