Wget

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Wget, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Wget.

• CVE-2024-10524GNU Wget is vulnerable to an SSRF attack when accessing partially-user-controlled shorthand URLs6.5Nov 19, 2024
• CVE-2024-38428url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcompon...9.1Jun 16, 2024
• CVE-2021-31879GNU Wget through 1.21.1 does not omit the Authorization header upon a redirect to a different origin, a related issue to CVE-2018-1000007.6.1Apr 29, 2021
• CVE-2019-5953Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.9.8May 17, 2019
• CVE-2018-20483set_file_metadata in xattr.c in GNU Wget before 1.20.1 stores a file's origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata attribute of the extended attributes of the downloaded file, which allows local...7.8Dec 26, 2018
• CVE-2018-0494GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c via a \r\n sequence in a continuation line.6.5May 6, 2018
• CVE-2017-13090GNU Wget: heap overflow in HTTP protocol handling8.8Oct 27, 2017
• CVE-2017-13089GNU Wget: stack overflow in HTTP protocol handling8.8Oct 27, 2017
• CVE-2017-6508CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.6.1Mar 7, 2017
• CVE-2016-7098Race condition in wget 1.17 and earlier, when used in recursive or mirroring mode to download a single file, might allow remote servers to bypass intended access list restrictions by keeping an HTT...8.1Sep 26, 2016
• CVE-2016-4971GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.8.8Jun 30, 2016
• CVE-2014-4877Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST ...9.3Oct 29, 2014
• CVE-2010-2252GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitra...6.8Jul 6, 2010
• CVE-2009-3490GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary ...6.8Sep 30, 2009
• CVE-2006-6719The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a lar...5.0Dec 23, 2006