7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2019-5953

Published: 17/05/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #926389 wget: CVE-2019-5953 Package: src:wget; Maintainer for src:wget is Noël Köthe <noel@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:45:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream Found in versions wget/118-1, w ...
Several security issues were fixed in Wget ...
Several security issues were fixed in Wget ...
Kusano Kazuhiko discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) in wget, a network utility to retrieve files from the web, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service when recursively downloading from an untrusted server For the stable distribution (stretch), ...
Synopsis Important: wget security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which ...
Synopsis Important: wget security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Update Services for SAP Solutio ...
Synopsis Important: wget security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 75 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste ...
Synopsis Important: wget security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for wget is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which ...
Synopsis Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 461 image security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 46Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability S ...
Buffer overflow in GNU Wget allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors (CVE-2019-5953) ...
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in GNU Wget An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code (CVE-2019-5953) ...