CRLF Injection Affecting wget package, versions [,1.19.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WGET-2336110
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wget to version 1.19.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection. CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.

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