CVE-2002-1405

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    CVE-2002-1405

    Published: 19 Feb 2003Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-210, http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9887.php, 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.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

    Affected packages

    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