CVE-2018-20483

Description

set_file_metadata in xattr.c in GNU Wget before 1.20.1 stores a file's origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata attribute of the extended attributes of the downloaded file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials contained in the URL) by reading this attribute, as demonstrated by getfattr. This also applies to Referer information in the user.xdg.referrer.url metadata attribute. According to 2016-07-22 in the Wget ChangeLog, user.xdg.origin.url was partially based on the behavior of fwrite_xattr in tool_xattr.c in curl.

How to fix CVE-2018-20483

To remediate CVE-2018-20483, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.20.1-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.20.1-1 or later

Is CVE-2018-20483 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 1.20.1-r0
• from 0, < 1.20.1-1

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-20483
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20483