CVE-2019-5101

Summary

An exploitable information leak vulnerability exists in the ustream-ssl library of OpenWrt, versions 18.06.4 and 15.05.1. When connecting to a remote server, the server's SSL certificate is checked but no action is taken when the certificate is invalid. An attacker could exploit this behavior by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, providing any certificate, leading to the theft of all the data sent by the client during the first request.An exploitable information leak vulnerability exists in the ustream-ssl library of OpenWrt, versions 18.06.4 and 15.05.1. When connecting to a remote server, the server's SSL certificate is checked but no action is taken when the certificate is invalid. An attacker could exploit this behavior by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, providing any certificate, leading to the theft of all the data sent by the client during the first request. After an SSL connection is initialized via _ustream_ssl_init, and after any data (e.g. the client's HTTP request) is written to the stream using ustream_printf, the code eventually enters the function _ustream_ssl_poll, which is used to dispatch the read/write events

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
OpenWRTOpenWRTOpenWrt 15.05.1, via wget (busybox)affected
OpenWRTOpenWRTOpenWrt 18.06.4, via wget (uclient-fetch)affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-295: CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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