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USN-4531-1: BusyBox vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that the BusyBox wget applet incorrectly validated SSL certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to intercept secure communications.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2018-1000500.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • cflinuxfs3
    • All versions prior to 0.208.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 14.0.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

  • cflinuxfs3
    • Upgrade All versions to 0.208.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade All versions to 14.0.0 or greater

History

2020-11-20: Initial vulnerability report published.

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