Vulnerability in GNU Wget

CVE-2004-2014

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.

EPSS: 0.010 (57.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Wget — versions 1.5.3, 1.6, 1.7
  • N/a — versions n/a

References