CVE-2014-4877

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.

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3