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CVE-2002-1405

MediumPublished

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...

Published: Sep 1, 2004
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Assigning CNA: mitre
Evidence observed: Aug 19, 2002

Primary CVSS

5.0/ 10Medium

nvd · CVSS 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS probability estimate

5.0%

Low · next 30 days

Percentile: 91.9%
Model date: Sep 21, 2026

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Summary

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.

Sources

Lynx 2.8.x - Command Line URL CRLF InjectionExploit
Ulf Harnhammar · linux · Aug 19, 2002

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