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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4877 Detail

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4877
NVD Published Date:
10/29/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
CERT/CC