critical9.3
CVE-2014-4877
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequent…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Wget | through 1.15 Versions 1.12, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- 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
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0