SuSE Portus 2.3 Nginx certificate validation

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A vulnerability was found in SuSE Portus 2.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Nginx. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Djelibeybi configuration examples for use of NGINX in SUSE Portus 2.3, when applied to certain configurations involving Docker Compose, have a Missing SSL Certificate Validation issue because no proxy_ssl_* directives are used.

The bug was discovered 03/07/2018. The weakness was presented 03/11/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at openwall.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-8059 since 03/11/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 02/21/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
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VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Certificate validation
CWE: CWE-295 / CWE-287
ATT&CK: T1587.003

Local: No
Remote: Partially

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

03/07/2018 🔍
03/11/2018 +4 days 🔍
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03/12/2018 +1 days 🔍
02/21/2023 +1807 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: suse.com

Advisory: openwall.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-8059 (🔍)
X-Force: 140144

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2018 08:00
Updated: 02/21/2023 09:52
Changes: 03/12/2018 08:00 (57), 01/12/2020 14:14 (1), 02/21/2023 09:52 (3)
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