vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-38428

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jun 16, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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