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Vulnerability details: VCID-fh7w-72hj-aaan
Vulnerability ID VCID-fh7w-72hj-aaan
Aliases CVE-2018-1000517
Summary BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can result in heap buffer overflow. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 10.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-1000517.html
cvssv3 5.6 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000517.json
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595595
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000517
cvssv3 5.6 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 8 https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e
ssvc Track https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e
cvssv3.1 8 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
cvssv3.1 8 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
ssvc Track https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
cvssv3.1 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3935-1
cvssv3.1 8 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
ssvc Track https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
generic_textual Low https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3935-1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-1000517.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000517.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-1000517
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000517
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3935-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3935-1
1595595 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595595
902724 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902724
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-1000517 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-1000517.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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-09T15:36:05Z/ Found at https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
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:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-09T15:36:05Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.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

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-09T15:36:05Z/ Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
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:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000517
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:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
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:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-09T15:36:05Z/ Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.68765
EPSS Score 0.00277
Published At Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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