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CVE-2014-4877

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to w

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.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.74311
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.50 - high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
  • EPSS percentile: top 1% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules7 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

2
gnu wget<= 1.15
gnu wgetall versions

Sigma Hunt Rules

7
Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighSuspicious Download and Execute Pattern via Curl/Wget
producthighSuspicious File Download From IP Via Wget.EXE
producthighSuspicious File Download From IP Via Wget.EXE - Paths
producthighSuspicious File Download From File Sharing Domain Via Wget.EXE
productmediumDownload File To Potentially Suspicious Directory Via Wget
productmediumData Exfiltration with Wget

Scoring & Timeline

9.3
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cret@cert.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD29 Oct 2014 · 10:55 AM

Vendor Advisories

4
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10263-1
rhsaRHSA-2014:1764Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2014:1955Moderate
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