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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…
Medium5.0EPSS 5.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- MDKSA-2003:023 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:030 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 2002-0085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- lynx-crlf-injection(9887) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20020822 Lynx CRLF Injection, part two (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020819 Lynx CRLF Injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 5499 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-210 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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