CVE-2014-4877
30Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendepss 40%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 29
metasploitOct 27
exploitation probability
40%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.htmlhttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-accesshttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml