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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-82-1 | wget security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-3062-1 | wget security update |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2393-1 | Wget vulnerability |
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Solution
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Workaround
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T11:27:36.989Z
Reserved: 2014-07-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-4877
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-10-29T10:55:05.417
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2014-4877
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DLA
Debian DSA
Ubuntu USN