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Alpine: wget: security update to 1.17.1-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 407606

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP
 to a crafted FTP resource. (CVE-2016-4971)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-4971

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 407606

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4971

BID: 91530