CVE-2017-6508

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-93

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 products

gnuwget wget: through 1.19.1

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96877
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-16
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=4d729e322fae359a1aefaafec1144764a54e8ad4
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-03/msg00018.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96877
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-16

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