EUVD Vulnerability Catalog

EUVD-2026-65494

Severity: MEDIUM Base Score: 5.1 CVSS Version: 4.0

Vulnerability Description

GNU wget is vulnerable to denial of service in its FTP OPIE/S-KEY authentication functionality. The server-supplied sequence number from the FTP challenge line is used as an iteration count for an MD5 key-derivation loop without any upper bound validation. A malicious FTP server or a network attacker positioned to intercept FTP traffic can send a crafted OPIE challenge with a sequence number near INT_MAX, causing wget to perform up to approximately 2.1 billion MD5 computations and suspend for some time. The --timeout option does not mitigate this because it applies only to network I/O, not CPU computation. This issue was fixed in commit e9697d98e7249b0f68a6be040a4f3dcc5bc101fa

CVSS Vector Analysis

Below is the complete, human-readable breakdown of the CVSS metric string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

▪ Attack Vector (AV): Network

▪ Attack Complexity (AC): Low

▪ Attack Requirements (AT): None

▪ Privileges Required (PR): None

▪ User Interaction (UI): Active

▪ Vulnerability Confidentiality Impact (VC): None

▪ Vulnerability Integrity Impact (VI): None

▪ Vulnerability Availability Impact (VA): Low

▪ Subsequent Confidentiality Impact (SC): None

▪ Subsequent Integrity Impact (SI): None

▪ Subsequent Availability Impact (SA): None

Affected Vendors & Systems

Vendor GNU

References & Advisory Links

Metadata Profile

Database Authority

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) EUVD

Assigner

CERT-PL

EPSS Probability

Known Aliases

GHSA-48r3-mr49-jp8x CVE-2026-16599

Published On

2026-08-25

Last Updated

2026-08-25