CVE-2026-58472
MEDIUMGNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via HTML Attribute Encoding
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch patch
Fix Commit
https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget/-/commit/dd692d9cea5335b181d877ae917fe6e75587a812
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnu-wget-heap-buffer-overflow-via-html-attribute-encoding
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