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CVE-2024-38428

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Date: June 15, 2024

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (7)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38428
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00029.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241115-0005/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-38428
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-38428

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Interpretation Conflict

CWE-436

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

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