CVE-2017-6508

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-6508
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-07 08:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-01 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionCRLF 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-93

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Wget All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU Wget CVE-2017-6508 CRLF Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
wget.git - GNU Wget CONFIRM git.savannah.gnu.org Patch
GNU Wget: Header injection (GLSA 201706-16) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[Bug-wget] Vulnerability Report - CRLF Injection in Wget Host Part MISC lists.gnu.org Exploit, Mailing List
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500734 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 504510 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 671086 EulerOS Security Update for wget (EulerOS-SA-2019-2198)
  • 710474 Gentoo Linux GNU Wget Header injection Vulnerability (GLSA 201706-16)
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