CVE-2017-6508

Public on 2017-03-07
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description
A CRLF injection flaw was found in the way wget handled URLs. A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject arbitrary HTTP headers in requests, via CRLF sequences in the host sub-component of a URL, by tricking a user running wget into processing crafted URLs.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 wget 2017-08-31 ALAS-2017-881 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N