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CVE-2009-3490
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.5%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- [bug-wget] 20090922 Release: GNU Wget 1.12 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090923 Re: More CVE-2009-2408 like issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2498 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [wget-notify] 20090805 [bug #27183] Wget likely suffers from the \0 SSL cert vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36540 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 36205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11099 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/1eab157d3be7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090903 More CVE-2009-2408 like issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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