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CVE-2026-58472

GNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via HTML Attribute Encoding

CVSS 6 MEDIUMCWE-190
Vexday Risk Score
10Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6EPSS KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
07 Jul 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
gnuwget · wget