CVE-2014-4877
N/A
Published: October 29, 2014 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWget
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 40%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
References (22)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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