CVE-2009-3490
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 3.5% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3472)
- Published
- September 30, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3472 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
References
- http://addictivecode.org/pipermail/wget-notify/2009-August/001808.html
- http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/1eab157d3be7
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125369675820512&w=2
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/8972
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36540(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36205
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2498(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11099
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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