CVE-2016-4971

high

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.

References

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https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-06-30

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.73293