Open Redirect Affecting wget package, versions [1.8,1.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.66% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WGET-2336108
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2005

CVE-2004-1487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wget to version 1.10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

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