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CVE-2014-4877

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Date: October 29, 2014

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (27)

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

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Path Traversal

CWE-22

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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