CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1487

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-04-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu wget 1.8 • gnu wget 1.8.1 • gnu wget 1.8.2 • gnu wget 1.9 • gnu wget 1.9.1

References