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CVE-2014-7206

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7206 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Apt before version 1.0.9.2, affecting Debian's Advanced Package Tool. An attacker can leverage a symlink attack on the changelog file to write to arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.6, indicating local access with low attack complexity, and primarily impacts integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:advanced_package_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:advanced_package_tool:1.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:apt:0.9.7.9:ubunto3:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:apt:0.9.7.9:ubunto4:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:apt:0.9.7.9:ubunto5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

debianvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
ubuntuvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/61158
secunia.com / advisories/61333
secunia.com / advisories/61768
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/96951
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3048
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/70310
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2370-1
Vendor Advisory