CVE-2002-1405: elinks
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Vulnerability summary
CVE-2002-1405 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in elinks. EPSS estimates a 5.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Weaponized exploit (exploit-database, 19-08-2002)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Timeline
- 01-09-2004PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 08-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
5.04%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
92%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 5.04% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundLynx 2.8.x - Command Line URL CRLF Injection
Maturity: weaponized
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian2 products
- lynx< 2.8.3-1.1 | < 2.8.4.1b-4
- lynx-ssl< 2.8.3.1-1.1
Elinks1 product
- elinks0.2.4 | 0.3.2
Links1 product
- links0.96
University_of_kansas1 product
- lynx2.8.2_rel1 | 2.8.3 | 2.8.3_rel1 | 2.8.4 | 2.8.4_rel1 | 2.8.5_dev8
4 vendors · 5 products
