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Improper Input Validation Affecting wget package, versions <1.19.5-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    9.64% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE37-WGET-300484
  • published 6 May 2018
  • disclosed 6 May 2018
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Introduced: 6 May 2018

CVE-2018-0494 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.7 wget to version 1.19.5-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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