CVE-2018-0494

Publication date 6 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
wget 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.1
17.10 artful
Fixed 1.19.1-3ubuntu1.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.17.1-1ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.4

Patch details

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Package Patch details
wget

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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