diff --git a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
index b3557f9a2..1fa27eb47 100644
--- a/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmFileCommand.cxx
@@ -3300,6 +3300,15 @@ cmFileCommand::HandleDownloadCommand(std::vector<std::string> const& args)
         << "           status: [" << (int)res << ";\""
           << ::curl_easy_strerror(res) << "\"]" << std::endl
         ;
+
+      if(!statusVar.empty() && res == 0)
+        {
+        std::string status = "1;HASH mismatch: "
+          "expected: " + expectedHash +
+          " actual: " + actualHash;
+        this->Makefile->AddDefinition(statusVar, status.c_str());
+        }
+
       this->SetError(oss.str());
       return false;
       }
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-result.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-result.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d00491fd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-result.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-stderr.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-stderr.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..406e31563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-stderr.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+^CMake Error at DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.cmake:[0-9]+ \(file\):
+  file DOWNLOAD HASH mismatch
+
+    for file: \[.*/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch-build/hash-mismatch.txt\]
+      expected hash: \[0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567\]
+        actual hash: \[da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709\]
+             status: \[0;"No error"\]
+
+Call Stack \(most recent call first\):
+  CMakeLists.txt:[0-9]+ \(include\)
++
+status='1;HASH mismatch: expected: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567 actual: da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709'$
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca72692c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+file(DOWNLOAD
+  "file://${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.txt"
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/hash-mismatch.txt
+  EXPECTED_HASH SHA1=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567
+  STATUS status
+  )
+message("status='${status}'")
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.txt b/Tests/RunCMake/file/DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/file/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/file/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index d3dfb1b7c..5f85bba68 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/file/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/file/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 include(RunCMake)
 
+run_cmake(DOWNLOAD-hash-mismatch)
 run_cmake(INSTALL-DIRECTORY)
 run_cmake(INSTALL-MESSAGE-bad)
 run_cmake(FileOpenFailRead)