GNU Wget
By the Year
In 2024 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in GNU Wget . Wget did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2021 | 1 | 6.10 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 1 | 9.80 |
| 2018 | 2 | 7.15 |
It may take a day or so for new Wget vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent GNU Wget Security Vulnerabilities
GNU Wget through 1.21.1 does not omit the Authorization header upon a redirect to a different origin
CVE-2021-31879
6.1 - Medium
- April 29, 2021
GNU 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.
Open Redirect
Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier
CVE-2019-5953
9.8 - Critical
- May 17, 2019
Buffer 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.
Memory Corruption
set_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
CVE-2018-20483
7.8 - High
- December 26, 2018
set_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 users to obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials contained in the URL) by reading this attribute, as demonstrated by getfattr. This also applies to Referer information in the user.xdg.referrer.url metadata attribute. According to 2016-07-22 in the Wget ChangeLog, user.xdg.origin.url was partially based on the behavior of fwrite_xattr in tool_xattr.c in curl.
Information Disclosure
GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c
CVE-2018-0494
6.5 - Medium
- May 06, 2018
GNU 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.
Improper Input Validation
GNU wget before 1.18
CVE-2016-4971
8.8 - High
- June 30, 2016
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.
CVE-1999-0402
- January 02, 1999
wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.
