CVE-2018-20483

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20483
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20483.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20483
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-12-26T18:29:00.480Z
Modified
2026-02-15T00:34:46.447867Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

setfilemetadata 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 fwritexattr in toolxattr.c in curl.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git/

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git/
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
70cddf3e29a0c092ffdc03908e3de1e015001b5a

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.12
v1.13
v1.13.1
v1.13.2
v1.13.3
v1.13.4
v1.14
v1.15
v1.16
v1.16.1
v1.16.2
v1.16.3
v1.17
v1.17.1
v1.18
v1.19
v1.19.1
v1.19.2
v1.19.3
v1.19.4
v1.19.5
v1.20

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20483.json"