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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0005421Kali LinuxKali Websites & Docspublic2025-07-14 09:37
Reporterelrey Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0005421: Issue with WAF blocking curl/wget requests to https://www.kali.org/archive-key.asc
Description

I think that your current WAF is treating curl and wget as malicious traffic, and I figured this out, because if you look at the picture attached called "curl_w_without_burp-proxy.png" the only difference between those two calls is that I am proxying my traffic through burp. So instead of it fingerprinting what is viewing it as curl it thinks it is some type of web browser. Which is why in the first call I am getting garbage (i.e. binary output, which you can see in the picture "curl_binary_output.png"), and the second is the regular key output.

Steps To Reproduce

curl https://www.kali.org/archive-key.asc

Additional Information

curl versions tested with: 7.64.0, 7.52.1
wget versions tested with: 1.20.1
curl versions tested that it doesn't work on: 7.64.1 ( I think this one is too new ( I did it on arch linux), so the vendor doesn't have a signature for it)

I figured this out because of my automation project: http://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux
where i was grabbing your key every time, and today it started giving me garbage when I was trying to execute it manually.

Attached Files
curl_binary_output.png (451,176 bytes)

Activities

elrey

elrey

2019-05-01 16:47

reporter   ~0010547

It appears to be fixed now, this can be closed.

curl_fixed.png (591,857 bytes)
rhertzog

rhertzog

2019-05-03 06:31

administrator   ~0010556

Closing on request of bug submitter.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2019-05-01 16:40 elrey New Issue
2019-05-01 16:40 elrey File Added: curl_w_without_burp-proxy.png
2019-05-01 16:40 elrey File Added: curl_binary_output.png
2019-05-01 16:47 elrey File Added: curl_fixed.png
2019-05-01 16:47 elrey Note Added: 0010547
2019-05-03 06:31 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2019-05-03 06:31 rhertzog Status new => closed
2019-05-03 06:31 rhertzog Resolution open => no change required
2019-05-03 06:31 rhertzog Note Added: 0010556
2025-07-14 09:37 g0tmi1k Severity block => minor