CVE-2014-4877

CVE Details

Release Date:2014-10-27
Impact:Moderate What is this?

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.

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


CVSS v2 metrics

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

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (wget)ELSA-2014-17642014-10-30
Oracle Linux version 7 (wget)ELSA-2014-17642014-10-30
Oracle VM version 3.3 (wget)OVMSA-2014-00362014-11-03
Oracle VM version 3.4 (wget)OVMSA-2014-00362014-11-03


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