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CVE-2016-4971 Detail

Description

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-4971
NVD Published Date:
06/30/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.