CVE-2016-7098
Race condition in wget 1.17 and earlier, when used in recursive or mirroring mode to download a single file, might allow remote servers to…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 7.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Race condition in wget 1.17 and earlier, when used in recursive or mirroring mode to download a single file, might allow remote servers to bypass intended access list restrictions by keeping an HTTP connection open.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- GNU Wget < 1.18 - Access List Bypass / Race Condition (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 40824remote, multiplepublished 24 Nov 2016Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 40824 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.5% · top 5.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- [oss-security] 20160827 Re: CVE Request - Gnu Wget 1.17 - Design Error Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:0015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2284 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 93157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 40824 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- [bug-wget] 20160814 Wget - acess list bypass / race condition PoC (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [bug-wget] 20160824 Re: Wget - acess list bypass / race condition PoC (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200129 [SECURITY] [DLA 2086-1] wget security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2016-7978 (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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