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CVE-2014-4877

Published: Oct 29, 2014Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-22
9.3CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
39.9%
Top 1.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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 response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

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

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
git.savannah.gnu.org
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml
security.gentoo.org
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
h20566.www2.hpe.com
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Timeline

Published
Oct 29, 2014
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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