CVE-1999-0402: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: version 1.5.3 only

Published 1999-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.