Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Jun 16, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-38428
CVE-2024-38428
Description
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.
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Affected products
13- osv-coords10 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/wgetpkg:rpm/opensuse/wget&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/wget&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/wget&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/wget&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0
< 1.19.5-12.el8_10+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.19.5-12.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.3-150000.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.3-150600.19.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.24.5-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.3-150000.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.3-150000.3.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.3-150600.19.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14-21.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.14-21.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.24.5-1.1
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