CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-58469

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

GNU Wget through version 1.25.0 contains a heap buffer underread vulnerability in the clean_metalink_string() function within src/metalink.c. A malicious server can trigger memory corruption by serving a Metalink document with a whitespace-only URL, causing a pointer to decrement past the buffer start.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause program crashes or potentially exploit memory corruption for further privilege escalation, threatening system stability and security.

Recommendation

Immediately update GNU Wget to a version containing the fix (commit 37a40fc) or later to eliminate the buffer underread vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit 37a40fc, contains a heap buffer underread vulnerability in the clean_metalink_string() function within src/metalink.c that allows a malicious server to trigger memory corruption by serving a Metalink document containing a whitespace-only URL. Attackers can cause the function to decrement a pointer past the start of the buffer when processing an all-whitespace Metalink URL, potentially leading to abnormal program behavior.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS