CVE-2002-1405 (GCVE-0-2002-1405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2002-08-19 00:00
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