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CVE-2004-2014

Published: Dec 31, 2004 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2014
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
WgetGnu1.5.3 (including)1.5.3 (including)
WgetGnu1.6 (including)1.6 (including)
WgetGnu1.7 (including)1.7 (including)
WgetGnu1.7.1 (including)1.7.1 (including)
WgetGnu1.8 (including)1.8 (including)
WgetGnu1.8.1 (including)1.8.1 (including)
WgetGnu1.8.2 (including)1.8.2 (including)
WgetGnu1.9 (including)1.9 (including)
WgetGnu1.9.1 (including)1.9.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatwget-0:1.10.1-1.30E.1*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatwget-0:1.10.1-2.4E.1*
WgetUbuntudapper*
WgetUbuntudevel*
WgetUbuntuedgy*
WgetUbuntufeisty*

References

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