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CVE-2018-0494

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-0494 describes a cookie injection vulnerability in GNU Wget versions prior to 1.19.5, specifically within the resp_new function in http.c, exploitable via a carriage return and newline sequence in a continuation line. This vulnerability, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, GNU, and Red Hat, carries a medium CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild and it's not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-44601) is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.19.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
17.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44601 · May 6, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1704 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 26,208 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wget-0:1.14-18.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wget
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wget

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-0494Moderate

wget: Cookie injection allows malicious website to write arbitrary cookie entries into cookie jar

May 6, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3052
Third Party Advisory
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/wget.git/commit
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-wget/2018-05/msg00020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
savannah.gnu.org / bugs
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201806-01
Third Party Advisory
sintonen.fi / advisories/gnu-wget-cookie-injection.txt
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3643-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3643-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4195
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/44601
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/104129
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040838
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry