CVE-2010-2252: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: up to and including 1.12; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only; …

Published 2010-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.