CVE-2014-4877
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 39.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/server/wget_symlink_file_writeRank normaldisclosed 27 Oct 2014
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· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 39.9% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
22
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=b4440d96cf8173d68ecaa07c36b8f4316ee794d0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201411-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [bug-wget] 20141027 GNU wget 1.16 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2393-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:121 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1955 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3062 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=18b0979357ed7dc4e11d4f2b1d7e0f5932d82aa7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#685996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:1366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1764 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:1408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 70751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0431.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-4796 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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