Improper Input Validation Affecting wget package, versions <1.19.5-1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
7.84% (95th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WGET-300491
- published 6 May 2018
- disclosed 6 May 2018
How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
wget
to version 1.19.5-1 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0494
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0494
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4195
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-0494
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-2/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601