Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

39.9% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (22)

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-201411-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [bug-wget] 20141027 GNU wget 1.16 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• USN-2393-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• MDVSA-2015:121 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1955 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3062 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• VU#685996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:1366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1764 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:1408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2014:1380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 70751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 11:27 UTC.