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wget — security advisory
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
- Products
- wget
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.12-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-3490
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3490
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-1
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-1
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:27.759879961Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417056,
"published_at": "2009-09-30T15:30:00.61+00:00"
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