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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-1000012

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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CVE-2019-1000012
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31 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-1000012

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Feb 2019, 21:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2019-1000012
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1000012",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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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      ],
      "affected": [
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          "versions": [
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:34.515381536Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/hexpm/hex/pull/646",
        "https://github.com/hexpm/hex/pull/651"
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    },
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    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381863,
  "published_at": "2019-02-04T21:29:01.097+00:00"
}