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breach watch Ubuntu security notices July 16, 2026

USN-8555-1: Ubuntu Advantage Tools (pro client) vulnerabilities

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Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearer token in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. (CVE-2026-9494) Frederick Jerusha discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools did not properly validate data received from the contract server when writing APT source files.

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