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CVE-2014-4877

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.

Published

2014-10-29T10:55:05.417

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	wget	≤ 1.15	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.12	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.13	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.13.1	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.13.2	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.13.3	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.13.4	Yes
Application	gnu	wget	1.14	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html ([email protected])
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 ([email protected])
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html Patch ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062 ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996 Patch, US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121 ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 Patch ([email protected])
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access Exploit ([email protected])
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 Exploit ([email protected])
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 ([email protected])
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 ([email protected])
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996 Patch, US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)