CVE-2002-1405

published 2003-02-19

CVE-2002-1405: CRLF 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…

Priority P4 25 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

CRLF 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.

Affected

14 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	lynx	< lynx 2.8.4.1b-4 (bookworm)	lynx 2.8.4.1b-4 (bookworm)
elinks	elinks	—	—
elinks	elinks	—	—
links	links	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	—	—
university_of_kansas	lynx	>= 0 < 2.8.4.1b-4	2.8.4.1b-4
university_of_kansas	lynx	>= 0 < 2.8.4.1b-4	2.8.4.1b-4
university_of_kansas	lynx	>= 0 < 2.8.4.1b-4	2.8.4.1b-4
university_of_kansas	lynx	>= 0 < 2.8.4.1b-4	2.8.4.1b-4

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.0 MEDIUM

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