CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38428
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-436
Description
url.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 subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.
Affected configurations
• gnu wget (<= 1.24.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict weakness
References
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00029.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html Mailing List, Patch
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241115-0005/ security.netapp.com