CVE-2014-4877: GNU Wget

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 39.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in GNU Wget before 1.16, when recursion is enabled, allows remote FTP servers to write to arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a LIST response that references the same filename within two entries, one of which indicates that the filename is for a symlink.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: up to and including 1.15; version 1.12 only; version 1.13 only; version 1.13.1 only; version 1.13.2 only; version 1.13.3 only; …

Published 2014-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.