CVE-2002-1344: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• GNU Wget: version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; …
• Sun Cobalt Raq Xtr: any version

Published 2002-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.