CVE-2018-0494

Summary

CVECVE-2018-0494
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-06 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-15 01:22:00 UTC
DescriptionGNU 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Gnu Wget All All All All
Application Gnu Wget All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
GNU Wget: Cookie injection (GLSA 201806-01) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
wget.git - GNU Wget MISC git.savannah.gnu.org Third Party Advisory
[Bug-wget] [ANNOUNCEMENT] New release 1.19.5 of GNU Wget MISC lists.gnu.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
sintonen.fi/advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt MISC sintonen.fi Exploit, Third Party Advisory
USN-3643-1: Wget vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
GNU wget - Cookie Injection - Linux local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] [DLA 1375-1] wget security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
wget Input Validation Flaw in SetCookie Processing Lets Remote Users Inject Arbitrary Cookies on the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4195-1 wget DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
GNU wget CVE-2018-0494 Cookie Injection Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GNU Wget - Bugs: Exiting with Error [Savannah] MISC savannah.gnu.org Broken Link
USN-3643-2: Wget vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500736 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
  • 504512 Alpine Linux Security Update for wget
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