CVE-2014-4877

Publication date 29 October 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wget	14.10 utopic	Fixed 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.10.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.13.4-2ubuntu1.2
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 1.12-1.1ubuntu2.2

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
wget	Upstream: ?id=18b Upstream: ?id=69c

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2393-1
Wget vulnerability
30 October 2014

Other references

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877