Vulnerability CVE-2016-4971
Published: 2016-06-30

Description:
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
GNU Wget Arbitrary File Upload / Potential Remote Code Execution
Dawid Golunski
07.07.2016
High
GNU wget Arbitrary File Upload / Code Execution
Dawid Golunski
30.04.2021

Type:

CWE-254

 (Security Features)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gnu wget project -> Gnu wget 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
http://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/86
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/
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