CVE-2014-4877

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 39.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

gnuwget wget: through 1.15; 1.12, 1.13, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3, 1.13.4 (+1)

References

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

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