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CVE-2019-5953
Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code…
Critical9.8EPSS 5.9%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.9% · top 6.8% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Buffer Overflow
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 1.20.1 and earlier
References (6)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201908-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2979 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3168 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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