url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38428
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=ed0c7c7e0e8f7298352646b2fd6e06a11e242ace
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2024-06/msg00005.html