CVE-2026-58472EPSS p30.8%
CVE-2026-58472CVE-2026-58472
gnu / wget
Description
GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.9 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.39% probability of exploitation · percentile 30.8% · 2026-10-06T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-07-09 |