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CVE-2010-2252 json

GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download,…

published 2010-07-06 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2264

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wget Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.12-2.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2252

  • wget RHEL 6 1.12-1.11.el6_5

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0151

  • wget openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18-2.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10263-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2252 updated cvss 5.8

wget: multiple HTTP client download filename vulnerability [OCERT 2010-001]

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 wget Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wget
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) wget 1.12-1.11.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) wget 1.12-1.11.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) wget 1.12-1.11.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) wget 1.12-1.11.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0151

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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