CVE-2016-4971
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4971
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4971.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4971
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-06-30T17:59:07.893Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-27T04:05:09.462373970Z
- Severity
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- 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "6.1.0" }, { "last_affected": "6.1.16" }, { "introduced": "7.0.0" }, { "last_affected": "7.0.14" }, { "introduced": "7.1.0" }, { "last_affected": "7.1.9" } ], "vendor_product": "paloaltonetworks:pan-os", "source": "CPE_RANGE" }, { "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "12.04" }, { "last_affected": "12.04" }, { "introduced": "14.04" }, { "last_affected": "14.04" }, { "introduced": "15.10" }, { "last_affected": "15.10" }, { "introduced": "16.04" }, { "last_affected": "16.04" } ], "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux", "source": "CPE_STRING" }, { "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "10" }, { "last_affected": "10" }, { "introduced": "11.3" }, { "last_affected": "11.3" } ], "vendor_product": "oracle:solaris", "source": "CPE_STRING" } ] }- References
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/
Affected packages
Git / http.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git/
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- http://http.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git/
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedbd7f36705b4daca56ebb825eae55faa7f17084d9
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "1.18" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" }