CVE-2002-1344

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in wget before 1.8.2-4 allows a remote FTP server to create or overwrite files as the wget user via filenames containing (1) /absolute/path or (2) .. (dot dot) sequences.

Affected products

gnuwget wget: 1.5.3, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8, 1.8.1 (+1)
Sun Cobalt Raq Xtr: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0102.html
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000552
http://distro.conectiva.com/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000552
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103962838628940&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104033016703851&w=2
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-022.shtml
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10820.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/210148
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-086.php
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2003.007.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-229.html

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