CVE-2014-4877

wget: FTP symlink arbitrary filesystem access

Published Oct 29, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 39.9% KEV · Not listed
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 solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-82-1 wget security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3062-1 wget security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2393-1 Wget vulnerability
References
Link Providers
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 cve-icon cve-icon
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4877 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877 cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.74311}

epss

{'score': 0.69365}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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{'score': 0.57321}

epss

{'score': 0.74311}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
certcc
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:27 AM
Reserved
Jul 10, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 29, 2014, 10:55 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:10 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 27, 2014, 12:00 AM