CVE-2014-4877

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

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