| Revision Date: | 2018-12-26 | Version: | 1 | | Title: | CVE-2018-20483 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low. | | Description: | 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.
| | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2018-20483
| | Platform(s): | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed. AND NOT wget package in xenial, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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