CVE-2018-0494
wget - security update
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 65.9%
Description
GNU 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.
How to fix CVE-2018-0494
To remediate CVE-2018-0494, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/wget—upgrade to 1.19.5-r0 or later
- Debian/wget—upgrade to 1.19.5-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.13.4-3+deb7u6 or later
- —upgrade to 1.16-1+deb8u5 or later
Is CVE-2018-0494 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 65.9%, placing CVE-2018-0494 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.19.5-r0
- from 0, < 1.19.5-1
- from 0, < 1.13.4-3+deb7u6
- from 0, < 1.16-1+deb8u5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |