CVE-2018-20483

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20483
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-26 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
Descriptionset_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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Wget All All All All
Application Gnu Wget All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-20483 GNU Wget Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
GNU wget CVE-2018-20483 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GNU Wget: Password and metadata leak (GLSA 201903-08) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
USN-3943-1: Wget vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
NEWS - wget.git - GNU Wget MISC git.savannah.gnu.org Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Hector Martin auf Twitter: "So yeah, um, this is not okay. It is not discoverable and could easily leak sensitive information. Auth credentials even, seriously? Also Chrome does this too. And it is preserved across `mv` to another filesystem.… https://t.co/y8Cq1feOol" MISC twitter.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296080 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 13.4.0 Missing (CPUJUL2019)
  • 500737 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 504513 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 710191 Gentoo Linux GNU Wget Password and metadata leak Vulnerability (GLSA 201903-08)
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