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Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wget  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-WGET-607030
  • published26 Dec 2018
  • disclosed26 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 26 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Debian.

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.