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Alpine: multiple wget packages: security update to 1.20.1-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424666

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2018-20483)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-20483

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424666

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20483

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20483

BID: 106358