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wget — security advisory
Directory traversal vulnerability in wget before 1.8.2-4 allows a remote FTP server to create or overwrite files as the wget user via filenames containing (1) /absolute/path or (2) .. (dot dot) sequences.
- Products
- wget
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.8.2-8
- CVEs
- CVE-2002-1344
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Directory traversal vulnerability in wget before 1.8.2-4 allows a remote FTP server to create or overwrite files as the wget user via filenames containing (1) /absolute/path or (2) .. (dot dot) sequences.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1344
wget
Fixed versions: 1.8.2-8
wget
Fixed versions: 1.8.2-8
wget
Fixed versions: 1.8.2-8
Complete source record
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