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CVE-2019-5953

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-05-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• gnuwget wget: through 1.20.1

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101
• https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101
• https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

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