Vulnerability in GNU Wget
CVE-2004-1488
wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.
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: 0.119 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.119 · newest: 0.119 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Wget — versions 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18421 (vdb-entry)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9750 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/20960 (third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)