CVE-2018-0494 EXPLOIT
6.5
MEDIUM · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 16.8% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.5 (MEDIUM, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| EPSS | 16.79% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-20 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2018-05-06 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (6)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| gnu | wget |
| redhat | enterprise linux desktop |
| redhat | enterprise linux server |
| redhat | enterprise linux workstation |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | GNU wget - Cookie Injection | 2018-05-06 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3643-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4195
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763
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