CVE-2016-4971

CVE-2016-4971 affects GNU Wget prior to 1.18. The issue occurs when following an HTTP redirect to an FTP resource: the filename provided by the server is trusted, which can cause wget to overwrite a local file with a name from the redirected resource. This could potentially allow arbitrary file o...

CVE-2018-0494

CVE-2018-0494 affects GNU Wget prior to 1.19.5. The vulnerability is due to cookie handling in the resp_new function in http.c that can be abused via a CRLF sequence in a continuation line, enabling cookie injection. Exploitation details are not provided in the sources; some advisories state the ...

CVE-2018-20483

CVE-2018-20483 affects GNU Wget prior to 1.20.1, where set_file_metadata in xattr.c stores the file’s origin URL (and Referer info) in user.xdg.origin.url / user.xdg.referrer.url extended attributes. Local users could read these attributes and obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials in th...