CVE-2016-4971 Information

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

Reference

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11 https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8