CVE-2024-38428 (GCVE-0-2024-38428)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-21 10:03
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
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