set_file_metadata in xattr.c in GNU Wget before 1.20.1 stores a file's origin URL in the user.xdg.origin.url metadata attribute of the extended attributes of the downloaded file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (e.g., credentials contained in the URL) by reading this attribute, as demonstrated by getfattr. This also applies to Referer information in the user.xdg.referrer.url metadata attribute. According to 2016-07-22 in the Wget ChangeLog, user.xdg.origin.url was partially based on the behavior of fwrite_xattr in tool_xattr.c in curl.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-12-26T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:05:16.988Z

Reserved: 2018-12-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-20483

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-26T18:29:00.480

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140

Link: CVE-2018-20483

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-12-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-20483 - Bugzilla