CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4971
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
Affected configurations
• gnu wget (< 1.18)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• oracle solaris 10
• oracle solaris 11.3
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 6.1.0 <= 6.1.16)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 7.0.0 <= 7.0.14)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 7.1.0 <= 7.1.9)
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html Broken Link
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html Broken Link
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html Broken Link
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html Broken Link
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry