User's IP address is exposed to the FTP server when automatically falling back from passive mode to active mode using PORT command. Wget is using normally passive mode, but this situation occurs when server rejects the PASV command. The real IP address is exposed even if client uses proxy server. Affected versions are <= 1.16.3. CVE request: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/516 Upstream patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=075d7556964f5a871a73c22ac4b69f5361295099
Created wget tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1260925]
CVE-2015-7665 was assigned to this vulnerability for Tails. This vulnerability in upstream wget distribution is not considered as vulnerability, thus there's no CVE assigned for upstream wget. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/8