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CVE-2019-5953

wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0wget1.20.3-1.ph1
Photon OS 2.0wget1.20.3-1.ph2
Photon OS 3.0wget1.20.3-1.ph3
alpine 3.10wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.11wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.12wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.13wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.14wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.15wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.16wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.17wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.18wget1.20.3-r0
Show all 47 entries from 44 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0wget1.20.3-1.ph1
Photon OS 2.0wget1.20.3-1.ph2
Photon OS 3.0wget1.20.3-1.ph3
alpine 3.10wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.11wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.12wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.13wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.14wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.15wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.16wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.17wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.18wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.19wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.20wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.21wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.22wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.23wget1.20.3-r0
alpine 3.24wget1.20.3-r0
alpine edgewget1.20.3-r0
amazon linux 1wget1.18-5.30.amzn1
amazon linux 1wget-debuginfo1.18-5.30.amzn1
amazon linux 2wget1.14-18.amzn2.1
amazon linux 2wget-debuginfo1.14-18.amzn2.1
debian 11wget1.20.1-1.1
debian 12wget1.20.1-1.1
debian 13wget1.20.1-1.1
debian 14wget1.20.1-1.1
debian 8wget1.16-1+deb8u6
debian 9wget1.18-5+deb9u3
echowget1.20.1-1.1
Oracle Linux 7wget1.14-18.el7_6.1
Oracle Linux 8wget1.19.5-7.0.1.el8_0.1
root.io alpine 3.18rootio-wget1.20.3-r0
root.io alpine 3.19rootio-wget1.20.3-r0
root.io alpine 3.20rootio-wget1.20.3-r0
root.io debian 11rootio-wget1.20.1-1.1
root.io debian 12rootio-wget1.20.1-1.1
root.io debian 13rootio-wget1.20.1-1.1
seal Red Hat 6seal-wget1.12-10.el6+sp999
seal Red Hat 6wget1.12-10.el6+sp999
ubuntu 14.04wget1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.5
ubuntu 14.04-ESMwget1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.5
ubuntu 16.04wget1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5
ubuntu 16.04-ESMwget1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5
ubuntu 18.04wget1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMwget1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 18.10wget1.19.5-1ubuntu1.1

References

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