CVE-2018-0494

high-risk

Published 2018-05-06

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.

Do I need to act?

64.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 36% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

1 public exploit available

44601

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (12)

Wget

Ubuntu Linux

Debian Linux

Enterprise Linux Desktop

Enterprise Linux Server

Enterprise Linux Workstation

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Gnu Canonical

References (26)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129

Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052

Third Party Advisory https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76d...

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html

Patch https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html

Broken Link https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01

Exploit https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-2/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4195

Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601/

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129

Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052

Third Party Advisory https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76d...

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html

Patch https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html

Broken Link https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763

and 6 more references

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high-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 19/34 · Moderate

Exposure 17/34 · Moderate