CVE-2026-58472
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
- 6.0
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 - CVSS 3.1
- 7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:wget