CVE-2026-58472
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.0
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-07 21:17:28.873000
Last modified
2026-10-25 20:10:00.147000
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