CVE-2016-4971
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)46%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1Patch
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.htmlPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.htmlAdvisory