CVE-2021-31879

Publication date 29 April 2021

Last updated 10 December 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

GNU Wget through 1.21.1 does not omit the Authorization header upon a redirect to a different origin, a related issue to CVE-2018-1000007.

Read the notes from the security team

Mitigation

Use `--max-redirect=0` to prevent all redirects.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
wget 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable, fix deferred
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable, fix deferred
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was deferred
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was deferred
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was deferred
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable, fix deferred
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable, fix deferred
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable, fix deferred
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable, fix deferred
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was deferred

Notes

mdeslaur

no upstream fix as of 2024-06-19 also see previous upstream bug from 2019

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N