Palo Alto Networks PAN-SA-2017-0016: WGET Vulnerability
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(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
05/22/2017
07/25/2018
05/24/2017
06/17/2020
Description
The wget library has been found to contain a vulnerability (CVE 2016-4971). wget allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. Palo Alto Networks software makes use of the vulnerable library and may be affected. (Ref # PAN-59677/ CVE 2016-4971)
Solution(s)
- palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-6-1
- palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-7-0
- palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-7-1
- palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-8-0
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