Vulnerability in Elinks
CVE-2002-1405
CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers into an HTTP request that is provided on the command line, via a URL containing encoded carriage return, line feed, and other whitespace characters.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.050 (92.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Elinks — versions 0.2.4, 0.3.2
- Links — versions 0.96
- University Of Kansas Lynx — versions 2.8.2_rel1, 2.8.3, 2.8.3_rel1
References
- www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt (vendor-advisory)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-029.html (vendor-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)