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CVE-2019-5953

Public on 2019-04-17
Modified on 2019-06-13
Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the GNU Wget in version 1.20.1 and earlier when processing Internationalized Resource Identifiers. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 wget 2019-04-17 18:51 ALAS-2019-1194
Amazon Linux 2 - Core wget 2019-06-11 23:19 ALAS2-2019-1227

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H