Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1405

Title: Lynx CRLF injection into HTTP headers

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-1405

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Feb 19, 2003
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.04%

Vulnerability Summary

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 provided on the command line, via a URL containing encoded carriage return, line feed, and other whitespace characters.

Impacted Vendors

E
elinks 1
I
invisible-island 1
M
maian 1
U
university_of_kansas 1
L
lynx_project 1
T
twibright_labs 1
L
links 1

Reference Links

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.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.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 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.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.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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1405 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21722
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.