Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting wget package, versions [,1.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.14% (90th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WGET-2336114
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2006

CVE-2006-6719  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wget to version 1.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of blank 220 responses to the SYST command.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1