Executive Summary

Summary
Title GNU Wget: Cookie injection
Informations
Name GLSA-201806-01 First vendor Publication 2018-06-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-06-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerablity in GNU Wget could allow arbitrary cookies to be injected.

Background

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in GNU Wget's resp_new function which does not validate \r\n sequences in continuation lines.

Impact

A remote attacker could inject arbitrary cookie entry requests.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GNU Wget users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wget-1.19.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-0494 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0494

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201806-01.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 25
Os 5
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-11b37d7a68.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1121.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-3052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-26 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1342.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-26 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1348.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1315.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1316.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201806-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1040.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1375.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-29ebba0906.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-f29459149a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-10 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-129-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-10 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_7b5a8e3b52cc11e88c7a9c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4195.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-06-14 00:19:02
  • First insertion