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CVE-2014-4877

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary fi

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1 Metasploit module

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 23

git.savannah.gnu.org

security.gentoo.org

h20566.www2.hpe.com

lists.gnu.org

ubuntu.com

mandriva.com

rhn.redhat.com

debian.org

kb.cert.org

lists.opensuse.org

bugzilla.redhat.com

community.rapid7.com

oracle.com

securityfocus.com

kc.mcafee.com

advisories.mageia.org

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