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CVE-2018-0494 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  05/06/2018
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.5 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104129 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040838 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3052
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html Patch Third Party Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53763 Broken Link
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt Exploit 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 Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44601/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-0494
NVD Published Date:
05/06/2018
NVD Last Modified:
10/31/2018