CVE-2004-1487

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

Affected products

gnuwget wget: 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.9, 1.9.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18420
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11682
https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html

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