High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-1000012
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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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"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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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381863,
"published_at": "2019-02-04T21:29:01.097+00:00"
}