{"id":"CVE-2019-5953","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-5953","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:23:51.155Z","title":"Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.","description":"Buffer overflow in GNU Wget 1.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or may execute an arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.","published":"2019-05-17T16:29:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:38:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["gnu/wget"],"epss":{"score":0.05862,"percentile":0.93146,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101","source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/","tags":["Product"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}