{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877","details":"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.","modified":"2026-02-04T04:34:49.528682Z","published":"2014-10-29T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2393-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-4877"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4877"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2014-10/msg00150.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2393-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4877"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wget","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wget@1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1"}]}],"versions":["1.14-2ubuntu1","1.14-5ubuntu1","1.15-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"wget","binary_version":"1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4877.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}