CVE-2004-1488

Wget vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

11.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Gnu

Affected product

Wget

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-04-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 11.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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