CVE-2006-6719: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; …

Published 2006-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.