CVE-2002-1405

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-1405
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-02-19 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionCRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers into an HTTP request that is provided on the command line, via a URL containing encoded carriage return, line feed, and other whitespace characters.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elinks Elinks 0.2.4 All All All
Application Elinks Elinks 0.3.2 All All All
Application Links Links 0.96 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.2_rel1 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.3 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.3_rel1 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.4 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.4_rel1 All All All
Application University Of Kansas Lynx 2.8.5_dev8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-210-1 lynx af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
'Lynx CRLF Injection' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Mandrakesoft Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandrakesoft.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Lynx Command Line URL CRLF Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
'Lynx CRLF Injection, part two' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.net
ISS X-Force Database: lynx-crlf-injection (9887): Lynx CRLF injection could be used to send faked HTTP headers af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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