There is an unspecified vulnerability in pax

pax is a set of archiving tools developed by Debian's QA group that can read and write tar and cpio formats. A security vulnerability exists in pax version 1:20140703. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to write arbitrary files by performing a symlink attack on the archive file...

GNU Wget FTP Symlink Arbitrary Filesystem Access

This module exploits a vulnerability in Wget when used in recursive -r mode with a FTP server as a destination. A symlink is used to allow arbitrary writes to the target's filesystem. To specify content for the file, use the "file:/path" syntax for the TARGETDATA option. Tested successfully with...

commons-fileupload: Arbitrary file upload via deserialization

The DiskFileItem class in Apache Commons FileUpload, as used in Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1; JBoss Portal 4.3 CP07, 5.2.2, and 6.0.0; and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance...