SB2026010713 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GNU wget

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-69194)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error in the Metalink processing logic. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and create, truncate, or overwrite arbitrary files writable by the victim user.

2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the get_local_filename_real() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2425773
• https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/commit/485c6aa5ba38cb369c6eb8564ea97cddc854049e