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CVE-2024-38428

Published: 16 June 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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
using semicolons in the userinfo component isn't a common
occurence, but a user could be tricked into thinking they are
connecting to a different host than they are in actuality

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
wget
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (1.20.3-1ubuntu2.1)
jammy
Released (1.21.2-2ubuntu1.1)
mantic
Released (1.21.3-1ubuntu1.1)
noble
Released (1.21.4-1ubuntu4.1)
trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace