CVE-2015-7665
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive...
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
- Record
CVE-2015-7665- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
- Record
CVE-2015-7665- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-7568 No score
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
- Record
EUVD-2015-7568- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-mp83-q9h6-ghgh
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive...
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
- Record
GHSA-mp83-q9h6-ghgh- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10263-1 No score
wget-1.18-2.3 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the wget-1.18-2.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10263-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
wgetopenSUSE:Tumbleweed |
before 1.18-2.3 | 1.18-2.3 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2015-7665 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) in Tails Project Tails, published December 27, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.60%, the 75th percentile. Fixed in wget 1.18-2.3.
References
mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-October/009591.html
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/10
labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10364
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2015-08/msg00020.html
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit?id=075d7556964f5a871a73c22ac4b69f5361295099
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securityfocus.com/bid/76678
tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/index.en.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7665
github.com/advisories/GHSA-mp83-q9h6-ghgh
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2252