CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1405

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-02-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-02-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• elinks elinks 0.2.4 • elinks elinks 0.3.2 • links links 0.96 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.2 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.3 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.4 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.4 rel1 • university of kansas lynx 2.8.5 dev8

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