CVE-2018-20483
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-26 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 12:05
Severity ?
Summary
set_file_metadata in xattr.c in GNU Wget before 1.20.1 stores a file's origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata attribute of the extended attributes of the downloaded file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials contained in the URL) by reading this attribute, as demonstrated by getfattr. This also applies to Referer information in the user.xdg.referrer.url metadata attribute. According to 2016-07-22 in the Wget ChangeLog, user.xdg.origin.url was partially based on the behavior of fwrite_xattr in tool_xattr.c in curl.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/tree/NEWSRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106358Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-08Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0002/
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1077676739877232640Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3943-1/
Impacted products
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