Security Advisory
CVE-2014-4877
9.3
Vulnerability Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.
Published Date
October 29, 2014
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory