CVE-2004-1487: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ".." that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server, which bypasses wget's filtering for ".." sequences.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.9 only; version 1.9.1 only

Published 2005-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.