CVE-2024-38428 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace 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.