vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3012-1 (CVE-2016-4971): Wget vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 20, 2016
Added
Jun 20, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-wget
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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