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🛡️ SUSE-SU-2025:20010-1 — wget (CVE-2024-38428)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for wget

This update for wget fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. (bsc#1226419)
  • Update to GNU wget 1.24.5:
  • Fix how subdomain matches are checked for HSTS.
  • Wget will now also parse the srcset attribute in <source> HTML tags
  • Support reading fetchmail style "user" and "passwd" fields from netrc
  • In some cases, prevent the confusing "Cannot write to... (success)" error messages
  • Support extremely fast download speeds (TB/s)
  • Ensure that CSS URLs are corectly quoted
  • libproxy support is now upstream- drop wget-libproxy.patch

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2025:20010-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wget (fixed in 1.24.5-1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 February 2025 and last revised on 23 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.suse.com (Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-02-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wget 1.24.5-1.1

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