CVE-2002-1405

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-02-19 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Elinks: 0.2.4, 0.3.2
Links: 0.96
University Of Kansas Lynx: 2.8.2_rel1, 2.8.3, 2.8.3_rel1, 2.8.4, 2.8.4_rel1, 2.8.5_dev8

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103003793418021&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:023
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-029.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-030.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5499
http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0085-lynx-ssl.asc.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102978118411977&w=2

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