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CVE-2024-38428

CRITICAL
Published 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
9.1
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.003
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.3% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.498
Higher than 49.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

gnu

wget

Affected Versions:

0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed CRITICAL

GHSA-2j66-vp53-phjj

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

9.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

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

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: June 16, 2024, Modified: April 21, 2025

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
Published: 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-21T10:03:18.212Z
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