High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-20483
CVE-2018-20483
Description
set_file_metadata in xattr.c in GNU Wget before 1.20.1 stores a file's origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata attribute of the extended attributes of the downloaded file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials contained in the URL) by reading this attribute, as demonstrated by getfattr. This also applies to Referer information in the user.xdg.referrer.url metadata attribute. According to 2016-07-22 in the Wget ChangeLog, user.xdg.origin.url was partially based on the behavior of fwrite_xattr in tool_xattr.c in curl.
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Affected products
6- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/wget&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/wget&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015
< 1.19.5-lp150.2.3.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.19.5-lp150.2.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.21.1-2.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.19.5-3.3.1
Patches
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References
7- twitter.com/marcan42/status/1077676739877232640nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/tree/NEWSnvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/106358nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-08nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701nvd
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0002/nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/3943-1/nvd
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