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.
References
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http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 cve-icon cve-icon
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4877 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2014-10-29T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:27:36.989Z

Reserved: 2014-07-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-4877

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-10-29T10:55:05.417

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:11:02.043

Link: CVE-2014-4877

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-4877 - Bugzilla