USN-6852-1: Wget vulnerability
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22 August 2024
22 August 2024
CLOSED
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-38428
Severity
medium
Vendor
VMware Tanzu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 22.04
- Cflinuxfs4
- Operations Manager Image 3.0.x
Description
It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. A remote attacker could possibly trick a user into connecting to a different host than expected. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6852-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: wget - 1.20.3-1ubuntu2.1 No subscription required.
Fixed VMware Products and Versions
- Cflinuxfs4
- 1.99.0 or greater
- Jammy Stemcells
- 1.486 or greater
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6852-1
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6852-1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6852-1
History
2024-06-26: Initial vulnerability report published.