Amazon Linux AMI : wget (ALAS-2016-720)

GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. CVE-2016-4971 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory...

Medium: wget

Issue Overview: GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. CVE-2016-4971 Affected Packages: wget Issue Correction: Run yum update wget or yum update --advisory ALAS-2016-720 to update your system. New...

Fedora 23 : wget (2016-2db8cbc2fd)

Updated to 1.18 due to CVE-2016-4971 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 24 : wget (2016-e14374472f)

Updated to 1.18 due to CVE-2016-4971 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 22 : wget (2016-24135dfe43)

Updated to 1.18 due to CVE-2016-4971 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

SOL55181425 - Wget vulnerability CVE-2016-4971

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

USN-3012-1 Wget vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-3012-1 Wget vulnerability Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu, wget Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description Dawid Golunski discovered that Wget incorrectly handled filenames when being redirected from an HTTP to an FTP URL. A malicious server could possibly use this issue to...

GNU Wget 1.18 - Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution

GNU Wget 1.18 - Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution ============================================= - Release date: 06.07.2016 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: High - CVE-2016-4971 ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- GNU Wget...

GNU wget HTTP Redirect Arbitrary File Overwrite (CVE-2016-4971)

An arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability has been reported in the GNU wget. The vulnerability is due to wget trusting the filename provided by an FTP server when the original request is redirected from an HTTP server. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to request...

GNU Wget < 1.18 - Arbitrary File Upload / Remote Code Execution

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits ============================================= - Release date: 06.07.2016 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: High - CVE-2016-4971 ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- GNU Wget 1.18...

GNU Wget Arbitrary File Upload / Potential Remote Code Execution

============================================= - Release date: 06.07.2016 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: High - CVE-2016-4971 ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- GNU Wget 1.18 Arbitrary File Upload / Potential RCE II. BACKGROUND...

GNU Wget < 1.18 - Arbitrary File Upload / Remote Code Execution

============================================= - Release date: 06.07.2016 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: High - CVE-2016-4971 ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- GNU Wget 1.18 Arbitrary File Upload / Potential Remote Code Execution...

Debian DLA-536-1 : wget security update

On a server redirect from HTTP to a FTP resource, wget would trust the HTTP server and uses the name in the redirected URL as the destination filename. This behaviour was changed and now it works similarly as a redirect from HTTP to another HTTP resource so the original name is used as the...

[SECURITY] [DLA 536-1] wget security update

Package : wget Version : 1.13.4-3+deb7u3 CVE ID : CVE-2016-4971 Debian Bug : 827003 On a server redirect from HTTP to a FTP resource, wget would trust the HTTP server and uses the name in the redirected URL as the destination filename. This behaviour was changed and now it works similarly as a...

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...

ALPINE-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...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

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

CVE-2016-4971

CVE-2016-4971 affects GNU Wget prior to 1.18. The issue occurs when following an HTTP redirect to an FTP resource: the filename provided by the server is trusted, which can cause wget to overwrite a local file with a name from the redirected resource. This could potentially allow arbitrary file o...