Vulnerability CVE-2014-4877

Vulnerability CVE-2014-4877

Published: 2014-10-29

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
High	GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access	HD Moore	28.10.2014
High	GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access Exploit	hdm	02.11.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10	10/10	8.6/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
GNU -> WGET

References:

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00026.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1955.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-05.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3062

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:121

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70751

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2393-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106

Vulnerability CVE-2014-4877

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

High

GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access

High

GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access Exploit

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

9.3/10

10/10

8.6/10

Remote

Medium

No required

Complete

Complete

Complete

Affected software

References: