CVE-2004-1488

published 2005-04-27

CVE-2004-1488: 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…

Priority P4 29 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

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.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wget	< wget 1.9.1-11 (bookworm)	wget 1.9.1-11 (bookworm)
gnu	wget	—	—
gnu	wget	—	—
gnu	wget	—	—
gnu	wget	—	—
gnu	wget	—	—
gnu	wget	>= 0 < 1.9.1-11	1.9.1-11
gnu	wget	>= 0 < 1.9.1-11	1.9.1-11
gnu	wget	>= 0 < 1.9.1-11	1.9.1-11
gnu	wget	>= 0 < 1.9.1-11	1.9.1-11

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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