CVE-2004-1488

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

GNU wget

First reported 19 years ago

2005-04-27 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:29:00

Affected Software

GNU wget 1.8

1.8

GNU wget 1.8.1

1.8.1

GNU wget 1.8.2

1.8.2

GNU wget 1.9

1.9

GNU wget 1.9.1

1.9.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

20041209 wget: Arbitrary file overwriting/appending/creating and other vulnerabilities

20960

1012472

SUSE-SR:2006:016

RHSA-2005:771

11871

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

wget-terminal-overwrite(18421)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9750

USN-145-1

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