CVE-2017-13089

HIGH

GNU Wget < 1.19.1 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

The 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 1.19.2, the chunk parser uses strtol() to read each chunk's length, but doesn't check that the chunk length is a non-negative number. The code then tries to skip the chunk in pieces of 512 bytes by using the MIN() macro, but ends up passing the negative chunk length to connect.c:fd_read(). As fd_read() takes an int argument, the high 32 bits of the chunk length are discarded, leaving fd_read() with a completely attacker controlled length argument.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC 55 stars
by mzeyong · poc
https://github.com/mzeyong/CVE-2017-13089
nomisec STUB 52 stars
by r1b · poc
https://github.com/r1b/CVE-2017-13089

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.7577
EPSS Percentile 98.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-121
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
gnu/wget < 1.19.1
GNU Project/Wget prior to 1.19.2
Published Oct 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026