CVE-2017-6508

MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.20%

wget - security update

Published: 3/7/2017Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/wgetfrom 0, < 1.19.1-r1
Debian/wgetfrom 0, < 1.19.1-2
Debian/wgetfrom 0, < 1.13.4-3+deb7u4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-6508
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6508