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Vulnerability details: VCID-wa8k-k5qt-f3bv
Vulnerability ID VCID-wa8k-k5qt-f3bv
Aliases CVE-2019-5953
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
cvssv3 8.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-5953.json
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.01671 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
epss 0.0175 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
cvssv3 8.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953
Reference id Reference type URL
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25261088/index.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-5953.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-5953
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5953
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-19
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14560101
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
1695679 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695679
926389 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926389
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2019-5953 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953
RHSA-2019:0983 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0983
RHSA-2019:1228 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1228
RHSA-2019:2979 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2979
RHSA-2019:3168 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3168
USN-3943-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3943-1/
USN-3943-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3943-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-5953.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

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none

required

unchanged

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low

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

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low

multiple

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none

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5953
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.81409
EPSS Score 0.01671
Published At Sept. 9, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:29:51.453153+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.11/main.json 37.0.0