CVE-2004-1487

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

GNU wget

First reported 19 years ago

2005-04-27 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:29:00

Affected Software

GNU wget 1.8

1.8

GNU wget 1.8.1

1.8.1

GNU wget 1.8.2

1.8.2

GNU wget 1.9

1.9

GNU wget 1.9.1

1.9.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

20041209 wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities

1012472

RHSA-2005:771

11871

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

wget-file-overwrite(18420)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11682

USN-145-1

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