CVE catalog

CVE-2002-1405

lynx: CVE-2002-1405

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
5.04% · Oct 25, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianlynxsid2.9.3-2fixed
Debianlynxforky2.9.3-2fixed
Debianlynxtrixie2.9.2-1fixed
Debianlynxbookworm2.9.0dev.12-1fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianlynxsourcesid2.8.4.1b-4not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianlynxsourceforky2.8.4.1b-4not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianlynxsourcetrixie2.8.4.1b-4not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debianlynxsourcebookworm2.8.4.1b-4not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [lynx]Fixed
    Details (2)
    • 2.9.0dev.12-1 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · bookworm; dsa · lynx · debian · 12

    • 2.9.0dev.12-1 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · bookworm; dsa · lynx · debian · 12

  • Source package: [lynx]

    Details (2)
    • 2.9.0dev.12-1 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · bookworm; dsa · lynx · debian · 12

    • 2.9.0dev.12-1 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · bookworm; dsa · lynx · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [lynx]Fixed

    Source package: [lynx]

    Details (2)
    • 2.9.2-1 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · 13

    • 2.9.2-1+b1 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · 13

  • Source package: [lynx]

    Details (2)
    • 2.9.2-1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · 13

    • 2.9.2-1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.8.4.1b-4

      dsa · lynx · debian · 13

Observed:

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