CVE-2018-0494
CVSS v3
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS Score
16.5 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Affected and fixed versions
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Vendor advisories
wget: Cookie injection allows malicious website to write arbitrary cookie entries into cookie jar
wget as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · wget as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · wget.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Security Advisory: wget security and bug fix update
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2018-05-06
- Exploit-DB
- EDB-44601
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