CVE-2014-4877
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877
Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685996
Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html
Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.16-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.16-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.16-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.16-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.16-1 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877.html
- 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877
CWEs
CWE-22
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.