UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877

    Published: 29 Oct 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4877
    Aliases:
    USN-2393-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4877, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html, https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2393-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wget

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1.14-2ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High