CVE-2010-2252
Description
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.12-2.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.12-2.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.12-2.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.12-2.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.12-2.1 |
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00023.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00031.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00032.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00033.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-05/msg00034.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127411372529485&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127412569216380&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127416905831994&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127422615924593&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127427572721591&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127432968701342&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127441275821210&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127611288927500&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0151.html
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65722
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591580
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602797
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2252
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.