Vigil@nce - wget: information disclosure via set_file_metadata
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via
set_file_metadata() of wget, in order to obtain sensitive
information.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/wget-information-disclosure-via-set-file-metadata-28162