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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-1293

NIXPKGS-2026-1293
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Permalink CVE-2026-1858
4.8 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): LOW
  • Integrity impact (I): LOW
  • Availability impact (A): NONE
updated 3 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion 8 hours ago
  • @LeSuisse accepted 3 hours ago
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub 3 hours ago
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

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.wget2

Successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive website downloader

Package maintainers

Patch: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/commit/f4854d7fbc0a85c1d9873f5980707c0b80df212a