CVE-2014-4877
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 39.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-10-29 10:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 11:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-07-10
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d758ee8b6122d94755aee55d94b2fb87b53b5000b01fbf38ab1ff36fc8fad161
05 Affected products
06 References
- git.savannah.gnu.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201411-05http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
- h20566.www2.hpe.comhttps://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- lists.gnu.org[bug-wget] 20141027 GNU wget 1.16 releasedhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2393-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:121http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:1955http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3062http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
- git.savannah.gnu.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#685996http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2014:1366http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:1764http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2014:1408http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
- h20566.www2.hpe.comhttps://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:1380http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
- community.rapid7.comhttps://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- www.securityfocus.com70751http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
- kc.mcafee.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wget Fixed in 1.16-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wget Fixed in 1.16-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wget Fixed in 1.16-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- wget Fixed in 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.