CVE-2014-4877

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Wget
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 October 2014

Summary

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.

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b444...
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
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https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/do...
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EPSS Score

56% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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