CVE-2004-1487 (GCVE-0-2004-1487)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-02-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:53
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755 x_refsource_MISC
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2004-12-09 00:00
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