CVE-2019-5953

Publication date 4 April 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wget	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 1.19.5-1ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.5

Notes

mdeslaur

actually fixed in 1.20.3, not in 1.20.2

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
wget	Upstream: ?id=692 Upstream: ?id=562

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H