Directory Traversal Affecting wget package, versions <1.16-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    7.22% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN13-WGET-5699528
  • published 29 Oct 2014
  • disclosed 29 Oct 2014

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 wget to version 1.16-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

4.3 medium