{"id":"USN-8543-1","summary":"wget vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Wget mishandled semicolons in the userinfo\nsubcomponent of a URL. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue\nto trick a user into connecting to a different host than intended. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-38428)\n\nIt was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Metalink documents\ncontaining a whitespace-only URL. A remote attacker could possibly use\nthis issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu\n18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu\n26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58469)\n\nIt was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Content-Range header\nvalues, leading to an integer overflow. A remote attacker could\npossibly use this issue to cause download desynchronization.\n(CVE-2026-58470)\n\nIt was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled character set\nconversion of server-supplied filenames. A remote attacker could possibly\nuse this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,\nUbuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58471)\n\nIt was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled HTML attributes\nrequiring entity encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue\nto cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2026-58472)","modified":"2026-07-15T04:14:42.030352513Z","published":"2026-07-14T19:06:42Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38428","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58469","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58470","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58471","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58472"],"upstream":["CVE-2024-38428","CVE-2026-58469","CVE-2026-58470","CVE-2026-58471","CVE-2026-58472","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38428","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58469","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58470","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58471","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58472"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8543-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-38428"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-58469"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-58470"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-58471"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-58472"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wget","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wget?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.5+esm2"}]}],"versions":["1.14-2ubuntu1","1.14-5ubuntu1","1.15-1ubuntu1","1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1","1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.2","1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.3","1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.4","1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.5"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"Available 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