wget prior to 1.16 allows for a web server to write arbitrary files on the 
client side.

A Metasploit module is available for testing:

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/4088

the disclosure is here:

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access

Redhat's bug is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181
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