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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Dec 11, 2002

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in wget before 1.8.2-4 allows a remote FTP server to create or overwrite files as the wget user via filenames containing (1) /absolute/path or (2) .. (dot dot) sequences.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (21)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 11, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Dec 9, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 10, 2002