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Vulnerability details: VCID-4cd9-j7dj-aaad
Vulnerability ID VCID-4cd9-j7dj-aaad
Aliases CVE-2018-1000500
Summary 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".
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.3
Risk 3.6
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 6.5 http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
generic_textual Medium http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
ssvc Track* http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-1000500.html
cvssv3 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000500.json
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595611
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000500
cvssv3 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
ssvc Track* https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
generic_textual Medium https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/wget.c?id=8bc418f07eab79a9c8d26594629799f6157a9466#n74
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
cvssv3 8.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
cvssv3.1 8.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4531-1
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4531-1/
ssvc Track* https://usn.ubuntu.com/4531-1/
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-1000500.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000500.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1000500
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000500
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/wget.c?id=8bc418f07eab79a9c8d26594629799f6157a9466#n74
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4531-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4531-1/
1595611 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595611
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-1000500 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

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required

unchanged

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2025-06-09T15:30:36Z/ Found at http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-May/086462.html
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000500.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2025-06-09T15:30:36Z/ Found at https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=45fa3f18adf57ef9d743038743d9c90573aeeb91
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000500
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/4531-1/
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2025-06-09T15:30:36Z/ Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/4531-1/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.64261
EPSS Score 0.00485
Published At June 10, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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