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CVE-2014-4877

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
29/10/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.15 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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