CVE-2026-16599

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

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-16599
https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget
https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget/-/commit/e9697d98e7249b0f68a6be040a4f3dcc5bc101fa

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-25 15:16

Updated : 2026-08-28 15:26

NVD link : CVE-2026-16599

Mitre link : CVE-2026-16599

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-16599

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-606

Unchecked Input for Loop Condition

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