CVE-2014-4877

GNU Wget <1.16 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

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.

Exploits (1)

metasploit WORKING POC

by hdm · rubypoc

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/server/wget_symlink_file_write.rb

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References (22)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html

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

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

[Vendor Advisory] https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106

[Third Party Advisory] http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html

[Patch] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0

[Patch] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html

[Patch, US Government Resource] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1

[Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

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

[Exploit] https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088

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

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062

[Third Party Advisory] http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml

... and 2 more

Scores

EPSS 0.7431

EPSS Percentile 98.9%

Details

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Products (8)

gnu/wget 1.12

gnu/wget 1.13

gnu/wget 1.13.1

gnu/wget 1.13.2

gnu/wget 1.13.3

gnu/wget 1.13.4

gnu/wget 1.14

gnu/wget < 1.15

Published Oct 29, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026