CVE-2014-4877

high

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.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-10-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High