What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-94574: CVE-2026-94574

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-23

Description

A local cross-user code execution vulnerability exists in GNU wget (Windows builds from eternallybored.org) due to a hardcoded configuration file path (C:\msys64) that is writable by unprivileged users, allowing for arbitrary code execution via the use_askpass directive, potentially allowing local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• GNU Wget (Windows Builds) Wget: through 1.21.4

References

• https://atos.net/en/lp/cybershield/a-tale-of-several-hijacks-and-what-it-taught-me-about-runtime-driven-testing
• https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

Get alerted when CVE-2026-94574 or the next vulnerability affects your stack