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CVE-2002-1405
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.
Published: Feb 19, 2003
Modified: Jun 16, 2026
CVSS Metrics
Affected Products (9)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| elinks | elinks | 0.2.4 |
| elinks | elinks | 0.3.2 |
| links | links | 0.96 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.2_rel1 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.3 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.3_rel1 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.4 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.4_rel1 |
| university_of_kansas | lynx | 2.8.5_dev8 |
GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-27fc-4jc3-pjvm
CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false...
References (20)
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt
- 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 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- 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
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-049.0.txt
- 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 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
Risk Scores
CVSS Score
5.0 / 10
EPSS Score
5.04%
Top 9% most likely to be exploited
Threat Score
21.5 / 100
Data Sources
NVD
EPSS
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