Gnu Wget

24 CVEs affecting Gnu Wget. Latest disclosed: 2026-07-07. Critical: 2, High: 6.

Top CVEs affecting Gnu Wget
CVESeverityScorePublishedSummary
CVE-2019-5953Critical9.82019-05-17Buffer 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 vect…
CVE-2024-38428Critical9.12024-06-16url.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 su…
CVE-2017-13090High8.82017-10-27The retr.c:fd_read_body() function is called when processing OK responses. When the response is sent chunked in wget before 1.19.2, the chunk parser uses strto…
CVE-2017-13089High8.82017-10-27The http.c:skip_short_body() function is called in some circumstances, such as when processing redirects. When the response is sent chunked in wget before 1.19…
CVE-2016-4971High8.82016-06-30GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
CVE-2016-7098High8.12016-09-26Race 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 acce…
CVE-2018-20483High7.82018-12-26set_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 t…
CVE-2026-58469High7.52026-07-07GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit 37a40fc, contains a heap buffer underread vulnerability in the clean_metalink_string() function within src/metalink.c…
CVE-2024-10524Medium6.52024-11-19Applications that use Wget to access a remote resource using shorthand URLs and pass arbitrary user credentials in the URL are vulnerable. In these cases attac…
CVE-2018-0494Medium6.52018-05-06GNU 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.
CVE-2021-31879Medium6.12021-04-29GNU 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.
CVE-2017-6508Medium6.12017-03-07CRLF 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 sequen…
CVE-2026-58472Medium5.92026-07-07GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allow…
CVE-2026-58471Medium5.92026-07-07GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit c2640fe, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the convert_fname() function within src/url.c that allows re…
CVE-2026-58470Medium5.32026-07-07GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit 43d3ba9, contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the parse_content_range() function within src/http.c that allow…
CVE-2014-48772014-10-29Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequent…
CVE-2010-22522010-07-06GNU 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…
CVE-2009-34902009-09-30GNU 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-middl…
CVE-2006-67192006-12-23The 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)…
CVE-2004-14882005-04-27wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers t…