CVE-2024-38428

CRITICAL

GNU Wget < 1.24.5 - URI Parsing Interpretation Conflict in url.c

Title source: llm

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00029.html

Mailing List, Patch

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

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241115-0005/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1

EPSS 0.0067

EPSS Percentile 47.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-436

Status published

Products (1)

gnu/wget < 1.24.5

Published Jun 16, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026