CVE-2018-20483

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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
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Published
2018-12-26T18:29:00Z
Modified
2026-04-16T06:17:28Z
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

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

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20483.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.20.1"
            }
        ]
    }
]