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medium 5.0

CVE-2004-1488 json

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 mal…

published 2005-02-15 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1482

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.9%
EPSS 11.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wget Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.1-11

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1488

  • wget RHEL 3 1.10.1-1.30E.1
  • wget RHEL 4 1.10.1-2.4E.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:771

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-1488 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 wget 1.10.1-1.30E.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 wget 1.10.1-2.4E.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:771

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24813)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24813 GNU Wget 1.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities remote, 2004-12-10
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.debian.org http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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