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CVE-2004-2014

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

Affected products

• gnuwget wget: 1.5.3, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8, 1.8.1 (+3)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108481268725276&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=wget&m=108482747906833&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=wget&m=108483270227139&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17399
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:204
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10361
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16167
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9830
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108481268725276&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=wget&m=108482747906833&w=2

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