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wget prior to 1.16 allows for a web server to write arbitrary files on the client side. A Metasploit module is available for testing: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088 the disclosure is here: https://community.rapid7.com/communi
Posted by Anonymous on Wed 29th Oct 2014 07:12
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  1. wget prior to 1.16 allows for a web server to write arbitrary files on the client side.
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  3. A Metasploit module is available for testing:
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  5. https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
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  7. the disclosure is here:
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  9. https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access
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  11. Redhat's bug is here:
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  13. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181

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