CVE-2018-1000500

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jun 26, 2018
Updated: Jun 9, 2025
Reserved: May 27, 2018

Description

Busybox 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".

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
USN-4531-1vendor-advisory

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