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CVE-2014-4877

Date: October 29, 2014

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (27)

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4877

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121

Url: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

Url: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088

Url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4877

Url: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html

Url: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

Url: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-4877

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2014-4877

Date: October 29, 2014

Language: C

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