ID:3613 - Exploit for Path traversal in wget - CVE-2014-4877

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.

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