CVE-2014-4877
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 39.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 39.9% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-4796)
- Published
- October 29, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-4796 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
- gnu / wget
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0(Patch)
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html(Patch)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181(Patch)
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access(Exploit)
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088(Exploit)
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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