Vulnerability CVE-2017-6508
Published: 2017-03-07

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
GNU -> WGET 

 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
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