CVE-2004-1487 - Conscious Missiles

Description

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x allows a remote malicious web server to overwrite certain files via a redirection URL containing a ..\ that resolves to the IP address of the malicious server which bypasses wget’s filtering for ..\ sequences.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18420 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11682 https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/