Nixpkgs security tracker
NIXPKGS-2026-1293
GitHub issue
published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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CVE-2026-1858
4.8 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): Low (L)
- Integrity (I): Low (L)
- Availability (A): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): Low (L)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): Low (L)
- Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
by @LeSuisse Activity log
- Created suggestion
- @LeSuisse accepted
- @LeSuisse published on GitHub
wget2 Improper Certificate Validation
wget2 accepts a server certificate with incorrect Key Usage (KU) or Extended Key Usage (EKU). If the attackers compromise a certificate (with the associated private key) issued for a different purpose, they may be able to reuse it for TLS server authentication.
Affected products
wget2
- =<2.2.1
Package maintainers
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@SuperSandro2000 Sandro Jäckel <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>