CVE-2014-4877

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-10-27

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.

See more information about CVE-2014-4877 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (wget)	ELSA-2014-1764	2014-10-30
Oracle Linux version 7 (wget)	ELSA-2014-1764	2014-10-30
Oracle VM version 3.3 (wget)	OVMSA-2014-0036	2014-11-03
Oracle VM version 3.4 (wget)	OVMSA-2014-0036	2014-11-03

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