CVE-2004-2014

Severity

26%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

81%

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

GNU wget

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:29:00

Affected Software

GNU wget 1.5.3

1.5.3

GNU wget 1.6

1.6

GNU wget 1.7

1.7

GNU wget 1.7.1

1.7.1

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

20040516 Wget race condition vulnerability

[wget] 20040517 Wget race condition vulnerability (fwd)

[wget] 20040517 Re: Wget race condition vulnerability (fwd)

17399

MDKSA-2005:204

RHSA-2005:771

10361

Exploit

wget-lock-race-condition(16167)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9830

USN-145-1

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