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GLSA-201806-01 : GNU Wget: Cookie injection

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110522

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201806-01 (GNU Wget: Cookie injection)

 A vulnerability was discovered in GNU Wget’s resp_new function which does not validate \\r\\n sequences in continuation lines.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could inject arbitrary cookie entry requests.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All GNU Wget users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-misc/wget-1.19.5'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-01

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110522

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201806-01.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 6/14/2018

Updated: 9/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:wget

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0494

GLSA: 201806-01