CVE-2016-4971

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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

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

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Canonical Ubuntu Linux

First reported 8 years ago

2016-06-30 17:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:30:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

16.04

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1

[info-gnu] 20160609 GNU wget 1.18 released

Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:2027

RHSA-2016:2587

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

91530

1036133

USN-3012-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666

Exploit

GLSA-201610-11

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971

40064

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