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CVE-1999-0402
published 1999-01-02

CVE-1999-0402: wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.

PriorityP411medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPINAN
EPSS
1.45%
70.7th percentile
wget 1.5.3 follows symlinks to change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
gnuwget
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