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CVE-2010-2252

Published: Jul 6, 2010Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-20
NVD MITRE
6.8CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
4.2%
Top 10.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

n/an/a
Gentoo LinuxGentoo Foundation Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
wgetgnuOSS Libraries
gentoo foundation inc.oss-projectUSOperating Systems
gnuoss-projectUSOSS Librariesaka g. nu

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Initial Access
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References

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127411372529485&w=2
marc.info
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602797
bugzilla.redhat.com
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00031.html
lists.gnu.org
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Timeline

Published
Jul 6, 2010
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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