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CVE-2014-4877
Published:October 29, 2014
Updated:May 16, 2026
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.
Related Resources (25)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4877
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877
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CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
CVSS v2
Base Score:
9.3
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-22
EPSS
Base Score:
74.31