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Fencer Vulns
low 2.6

CVE-2004-2014 json

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

published 2004-12-31 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2006

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Wget 1.9 and 1.9.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the name of the file being downloaded.

Patch / fix

  • wget Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.1-12

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-2014

  • wget RHEL 3 1.10.1-1.30E.1
  • wget RHEL 4 1.10.1-2.4E.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:771

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-2014 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:771

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24123)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24123 WGet 1.x - Insecure File Creation Race Condition local, 2004-05-17
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10361 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.