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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-4877 is rated High Exploit Risk (91.7/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 74.31%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.95% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-19 | 69.36% | 74.31% | +4.95% |
| 2 | 2025-07-13 | 74.31% | 69.36% | -4.95% |
| 3 | 2025-07-12 | — | 74.31% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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8.6 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2014-4877 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wget), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4877 |
gentoo
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normal | CVE-2014-4877: 1 GLSA(s) (201411-05), 1 atom(s) (net-misc/wget); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-4877 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877 |
suse
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high | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4877/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2014-4877 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wget), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 5. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4877 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | wget | <= 1.15 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.12 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.13 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.13.1 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.13.2 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.13.3 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.13.4 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| gnu | wget | 1.14 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |