| Release Date: | 2014-10-27 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
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
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | None |
| 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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