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USN-2393-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-10-30 17:10 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website

Summary

wget vulnerability

Details

HD Moore discovered that Wget contained a path traversal vulnerability when downloading symlinks using FTP. A malicious remote FTP server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Wget to overwrite arbitrary files, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2393-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4877	REPORT

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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877 (CVE-2014-4877)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-10-29 00:00 – Updated: 2025-09-08 16:43 – Source website

Details

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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4877	REPORT
	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-1…	REPORT
	https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit…	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2393-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:12Z",
  "published": "2014-10-29T00:00:00Z",
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    },
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