CVE-2004-2014 Affecting wget package, versions <1.9.1-12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-WGET-11772807
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed31 Dec 2004

Introduced: 31 Dec 2004

CVE-2004-2014  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 wget to version 1.9.1-12 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1