CVE-2024-38428 Wget Vulnerability: All you need to know
On Sunday, June 2nd 2024, a fix commit was pushed for a vulnerability in GNU’s popular Wget tool. Two weeks later, the vulnerability was assigned the ID CVE-2024-38428 and later was classified as a critical vulnerability – with a CVSS score of 9.1. In this blog, we take a dive deep into this threat by seeing what caused it, what consequences it might have, and how it can be mitigated.