wget — security advisory
GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
- Products
- wget
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.12-2.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-2252
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2252
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-2.1
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-2.1
wget
Fixed versions: 1.12-2.1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2252",
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:29.334602611Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417201,
"published_at": "2010-07-06T17:17:13.313+00:00"
}