CVE-2024-38428: GNU Wget

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: up to and including 1.24.5

Published 2024-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.