CVE-2026-58472

MEDIUM

GNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via HTML Attribute Encoding

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

GNU 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 allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (3)
gnu/wget < 1.25.0
gnuwget/wget < 1.25.0
gnuwget/wget dd692d9cea5335b181d877ae917fe6e75587a812
Published Jul 07, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 08, 2026