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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:Aug 19, 2002
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Sep 1, 2004
    EPSS Score:0.13122
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Elinks
    Product
    Elinks
    Vendor
    Links
    Product
    Links
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Linux
    Vendor
    University Of Kansas
    Product
    Lynx

    Exploits

    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21722

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2012-6709 (CVSS 5.9) — ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.…
    CVE-2012-4545 (CVSS 5.1) — The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, w…
    CVE-2007-2027 (CVSS 4.4) — Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for El…
    CVE-2007-5034 (CVSS 4.3) — ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of th…
    CVE-2006-5925 (CVSS 7.5) — Links web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbit…
    CVE-2008-7224 (CVSS 7.8) — Buffer overflow in entity_cache in ELinks before 0.11.4rc0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servic…

    References

    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
    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
    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
    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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High