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CVE-2014-4877

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.

  • Published: Oct 29, 2014
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2014-4877
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 9.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
gnu / wget 1.13.2 1.13.2.x
gnu / wget 1.13.1 1.13.1.x
gnu / wget 1.14 1.14.x
gnu / wget 1.13.4 1.13.4.x
gnu / wget - 1.15.x
gnu / wget 1.12 1.12.x
gnu / wget 1.13.3 1.13.3.x
gnu / wget 1.13 1.13.x