CVE-2018-1000500

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000500
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-26 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-24 20:15:00 UTC
DescriptionBusybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The "busybox wget" applet that can result in arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Simply download any file over HTTPS using "busybox wget https://compromised-domain.com/important-file".

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Busybox Busybox All All All All
Application Busybox Busybox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4531-1: BusyBox vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
busybox - BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux CONFIRM git.busybox.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
[PATCH] wget: don't silently ignore certificate validation MISC lists.busybox.net Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500078 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 503754 Alpine Linux Security Update for busybox
  • 751281 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2021:3531-1)
  • 751290 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2021:3531-1)
  • 751304 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2021:1408-1)
  • 751624 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:0135-1)
  • 751633 OpenSUSE Security Update for busybox (openSUSE-SU-2022:0135-1)
  • 752794 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:3959-1)
  • 752903 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for busybox (SUSE-SU-2022:4253-1)
  • 900072 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for busybox 1.31.1
  • 903204 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for busybox (3176)
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