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CVE-2018-0494
GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c via a \r\n sequence in a…
Medium6.5EPSS 16.5%
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- debian
Description
GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c via a \r\n sequence in a continuation line.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.5% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- cookie injection
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
WGet
- affected WGet
References (13)
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3052 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201806-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-4195 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 104129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1040838 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 44601 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- USN-3643-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180511 [SECURITY] [DLA 1375-1] wget security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3643-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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