url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

According to the versions of the wget package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus     there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is     misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.(CVE-2024-38428)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS Virtualization wget security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the wget package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus     there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is     misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.(CVE-2024-38428)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS wget security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6438 advisory.

    The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6208 advisory.

    The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2024:6192 advisory.

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-6192 advisory.

    [1.21.1-8]
    - Resolves: RHEL-43226 - Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6192 advisory.

    The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5299 advisory.

    The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-5299 advisory.

    [1.19.5-12.0.1]
    - SSLv3 support dropped from openssl, v3 test certificates need to be replaced [Orabug: 29613455]

    [1.19.5-12]
    - Resolves: RHEL-43559 - Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the wget package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4998 advisory.

    The wget packages provide the GNU Wget file retrieval utility for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

    Security Fix(es):

    * wget: Misinterpretation of input may lead to improper behavior (CVE-2024-38428)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-657 advisory.

    url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus     there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is     misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent. (CVE-2024-38428)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of wget installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-38428 advisory.

  - url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus     there May be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is     misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent. (CVE-2024-38428)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6852-2 advisory.

    USN-6852-1 fixed a vulnerability in Wget. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04     LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6852-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. A remote     attacker could possibly trick a user into connecting to a different host than expected.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2201-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. (bsc#1226419)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2174-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. (bsc#1226419)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2154-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. (bsc#1226419)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
209773	EulerOS Virtualization 2.12.1 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2762)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
209762	EulerOS Virtualization 2.12.0 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2780)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
208409	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2543)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
208383	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2518)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
207195	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2453)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
207186	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2407)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
207158	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2382)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
207157	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : wget (EulerOS-SA-2024-2430)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
206679	RHEL 9 : wget (RHSA-2024:6438)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
206629	RHEL 8 : wget (RHSA-2024:6208)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
206605	AlmaLinux 9 : wget (ALSA-2024:6192)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	critical
206502	Oracle Linux 9 : wget (ELSA-2024-6192)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
206493	RHEL 9 : wget (RHSA-2024:6192)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
205518	RHEL 8 : wget (RHSA-2024:5299)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
205479	Oracle Linux 8 : wget (ELSA-2024-5299)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
205399	Photon OS 3.0: Wget PHSA-2024-3.0-0779	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
205019	RHEL 8 : wget (RHSA-2024:4998)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
204807	Photon OS 4.0: Wget PHSA-2024-4.0-0659	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
204806	Photon OS 5.0: Wget PHSA-2024-5.0-0331	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
202919	Amazon Linux 2023 : wget (ALAS2023-2024-657)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
201618	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: wget (CVE-2024-38428)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	critical
201110	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Wget vulnerability (USN-6852-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
201043	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS : Wget vulnerability (USN-6852-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
201011	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2024:2201-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
200892	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2024:2174-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
200844	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2024:2154-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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