CVE-2016-4971: GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource

High severity · published Jun 30, 2016

CVE-2016-4971

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource

8.8

CVSS

46.1%

EPSS

On KEV

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)46.1% · higher than 99% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

PAN-OS · Palo Alto Networks

6.1.0 through 6.1.16; 7.0.0 through 7.0.14; 7.1.0 through 7.1.9 · source: NVD

Solaris · Oracle

10; 11.3 · source: NVD

Ubuntu Linux · Canonical

12.04; 14.04; 15.10; 16.04 · source: NVD

Wget · Gnu

before 1.18 · source: NVD

Affected product

PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks

All PAN-OS CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4971

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4971

Patch

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1

Mailing List

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html

Broken Link

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html

Exploit

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html

Broken Link

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html

Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html