CVE-2024-10524: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Applications that use Wget to access a remote resource using shorthand URLs and pass arbitrary user credentials in the URL are vulnerable. In these cases attackers can enter crafted credentials which will cause Wget to access an arbitrary host.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: before 1.25.0 (fixed in 1.25.0)

Published 2024-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.