CVE-2014-4877

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.3
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Wget
PublishedOct 29, 2014
First seenOct 29, 2014

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu wgetv ≤ 1.15, 1.12, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3, 1.13.4, 1.14—

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