Terminal Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability in Wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x

Terminal Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability in Wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x

CVE-2004-1488 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

wget 1.8.x and 1.9.x does not filter or quote control characters when displaying HTTP responses to the terminal, which may allow remote malicious web servers to inject terminal escape sequences and execute arbitrary code.

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