CVE-2026-58472

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.95.9—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 5.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-07. the CNA's CVSS baseline 5.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:vulncheck, epss, ghsa
Trending — 5 sources updated this week
5.9
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the html_quote_string() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity encoding. A server-supplied HTML attribute causes a signed integer counter to overflow during output size accumulation, resulting in an undersized heap allocation and subsequent heap buffer overflow during the copy phase.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9(high)
EPSS
12.6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 7, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

GNU Wget 1.25.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via HTML Attribute Encoding | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnu-wget-heap-buffer-overflow-via-html-attribute-encoding
generic

* src/convert.c (html_quote_string): Fix integer+buffer overflow (dd692d9c) · Commits · Wget / wget · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget/-/commit/dd692d9cea5335b181d877ae917fe6e75587a812

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-58472(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 31× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-15 09:21 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-07-15 09:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-14 22:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 5.9 · severity → MEDIUM
  8. 2026-07-14 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-07-14 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-07-13 06:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-07-13 06:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-07-13 05:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-07-13 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-07-12 03:46 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-07-12 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-07-11 01:55 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-07-11 01:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-07-10 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-10 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-07-09 17:00 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.1 · severity → HIGH
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  1. 2026-07-08 22:13 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-08 22:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-08 15:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-08 15:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-07-07 20:23 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-07-07 20:21 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-58472?
CVE-2026-58472 is a medium vulnerability published on July 7, 2026. GNU Wget through 1.25.0, fixed in commit dd692d9, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the htmlquotestring() function in src/convert.c that allows a remote attacker to trigger memory corruption by supplying a crafted HTML attribute with a large number of characters requiring entity…
When was CVE-2026-58472 disclosed?
CVE-2026-58472 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 7, 2026, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-58472 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-58472 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 12.6% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-58472?
CVE-2026-58472 has a CVSS v4.0 base score of 5.9 (CNA self-assessment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-58472?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-58472, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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