CVE-2016-4971

critical-risk
Published 2016-06-30

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

Do I need to act?

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75.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 25% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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2 public exploits available
49815, 40064
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Affected Vendors

Oracle Canonical Paloaltonetworks Gnu

References (26)

Patch http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182...
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-...
Broken Link http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1
Exploit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11
Third Party Advisory https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/
Patch http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182...
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-...
Broken Link http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
and 6 more references
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critical-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 26/34 · High
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate