Bug 1595611 (CVE-2018-1000500) - CVE-2018-1000500 busybox: wget: Missing SSL certificate validation
Summary: CVE-2018-1000500 busybox: wget: Missing SSL certificate validation
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-1000500
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1595680
Blocks: 1595598
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-27 08:21 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-05-26 20:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-06-28 07:27:04 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-06-27 08:21:07 UTC 
It was found that the internal TLS code in wget does not implement validation of the server's certificate.

References:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086444.html
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/wget.c?id=8bc418f07eab79a9c8d26594629799f6157a9466#n74
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-27 08:21:33 UTC 
Created wget tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595612]
Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-27 10:58:11 UTC 
Created busybox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595680]
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2018-06-28 07:27:04 UTC 
The support for https in busybox's wget was first added in version 1.23.0.  The version of busybox in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier are based on older upstream busybox versions and do not support https at all.
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2020-05-26 20:48:07 UTC 
Upstream fix:

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
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