National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2252
Original release date:07/06/2010
Last revised:07/07/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
GNU Wget 1.12 and earlier uses a server-provided filename instead of the original URL to determine the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a 3xx redirect to a URL with a .wgetrc filename followed by a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602797
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591580
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100609 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100521 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100520 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100519 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100518 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100518 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100517 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100517 [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bug-wget] 20100521 Re: security risk of unexpected download filenames
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bug-wget] 20100520 Re: security risk of unexpected download filenames
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bug-wget] 20100521 Re: security risk of unexpected download filenames
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bug-wget] 20100520 Re: security risk of unexpected download filenames
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bug-wget] 20100520 security risk of unexpected download filenames
