CVE-2024-47174

Description

Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Starting in version 1.11 and prior to versions 2.18.8 and 2.24.8, `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` did not verify TLS certificates on HTTPS connections. This could lead to connection details such as full URLs or credentials leaking in case of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` is also known as the builtin derivation builder `builtin:fetchurl`. It's not to be confused with the evaluation-time function `builtins.fetchurl`, which was not affected by this issue. A user may be affected by the risk of leaking credentials if they have a `netrc` file for authentication, or rely on derivations with `impureEnvVars` set to use credentials from the environment. In addition, the commonplace trust-on-first-use (TOFU) technique of updating dependencies by specifying an invalid hash and obtaining it from a remote store was also vulnerable to a MITM injecting arbitrary store objects. This also applied to the impure derivations experimental feature. Note that this may also happen when using Nixpkgs fetchers to obtain new hashes when not using the fake hash method, although that mechanism is not implemented in Nix itself but rather in Nixpkgs using a fixed-output derivation. The behavior was introduced in version 1.11 to make it consistent with the Nixpkgs `pkgs.fetchurl` and to make `<nix/fetchurl.nix>` work in the derivation builder sandbox, which back then did not have access to the CA bundles by default. Nowadays, CA bundles are bind-mounted on Linux. This issue has been fixed in Nix 2.18.8 and 2.24.8. As a workaround, implement (authenticated) fetching with `pkgs.fetchurl` from Nixpkgs, using `impureEnvVars` and `curlOpts` as needed.

Reserved 2024-09-19 | Published 2024-09-26 | Updated 2024-09-26 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Product status

>= 1.11, < 2.18.8
affected

>= 2.24.0, < 2.24.8
affected

References

github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-6fjr-mq49-mm2c

github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11585

github.com/...ommit/062b4a489e30da9c85fa4ff15cfdd2e51cac7b90

github.com/...ommit/5db358d4d78aea7204a8f22c5bf2a309267ee038

cve.org (CVE-2024-47174)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-47174)

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