It was discovered that Wget mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URL. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick a user into connecting to a different host than intended. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-38428) It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Metalink documents containing a whitespace-only URL. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58469) It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled Content-Range header values, leading to an integer overflow. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause download desynchronization. (CVE-2026-58470) It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled character set conversion of server-supplied filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-58471) It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled HTML attributes requiring entity encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-58472)
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