CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1488

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-04-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-04-27
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

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• gnu wget 1.8 • gnu wget 1.8.1 • gnu wget 1.8.2 • gnu wget 1.9 • gnu wget 1.9.1

References