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.

CVSS v2.0

9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

39.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile

Published

2014-10-29

Updated

2024-08-06

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/server/wget_symlink_file_write.…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2014-4874
• CVE-2014-4880
• CVE-2014-4873
• CVE-2014-4912
• CVE-2014-4872
• CVE-2014-4927