CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0402

Published: Jan 02, 1999 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0402
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Wget	Gnu	1.5.3 (including)	1.5.3 (including)

References

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