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Echo: wget: security update to 1.25.0-2+e1

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 462979

Description

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

 - GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the
 html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption
 by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A
 server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size
 accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the
 copy phase. (CVE-2026-58472)

Solution

Update the wget library and its related packages to version 1.25.0-2+e1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-58472

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 462979

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.89

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-58472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Threat Score: 2.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-58472