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Critical
CVE-2014-4877
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when...
Vulnerability Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
wget
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.12, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3, 1.13.4, 1.14
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 29th, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.