CVE-2024-38428

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.1 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2024-06-16

Last modified

2025-04-21

Weaknesses

CWE-436

Affected products

• Wget (Gnu)

References

• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00029.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241115-0005/