Vulnerability in Gnu Wget

CVE-2004-1487

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.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Wget — versions 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References