CVE-2015-7665

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.

Affected products

Tails Project Tails: through 1.6

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=075d7556964f5a871a73c22ac4b69f5361295099
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76678
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10364
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2015-08/msg00020.html
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-August/009370.html
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-October/009591.html
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/index.en.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=075d7556964f5a871a73c22ac4b69f5361295099
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76678
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10364

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