GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
CVE-2010-2252 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from gnu organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2010, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2010-07-06T17:17:13.313
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
8.6
6.4
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | gnu | wget | ≤ 1.12 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.5.3 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.6 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.7 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.7.1 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.8 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.8.1 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.8.2 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.9 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.9.1 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.10 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.10.1 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.10.2 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.11 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.11.1 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.11.2 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.11.3 | Yes |
| Application | gnu | wget | 1.11.4 | Yes |
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