CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-4877.md

### [CVE-2014-4877](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4877)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722

#### Github
- https://github.com/Asteria-BCSD/Asteria