CVE-1999-0402

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions wget version 1.5.3

Description The issue allows wget to follow symlinks and change permissions of the target file instead of the symlink itself.

Recommendations For version 1.5.3, consider updating to a newer version that does not follow symlinks when changing permissions, or apply a configuration change to prevent wget from following symlinks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.