CVE-2002-1405 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2002-1405

CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

elinks, links, lynx
Vulnerable Versions:
0.2.4, 0.3.2, 0.96, 2.8.2_rel1, 2.8.3, 2.8.3_rel1, 2.8.4, 2.8.4_rel1, 2.8.5_dev8

Timeline

Official Publish: September 1st, 2004
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.