Intrusion PreventionGNU.Wget.Cookie.Injection.Policy.Bypass
Description
This indicates an attack attempt to exploit a Policy Bypass Vulnerability in GNU wget.
The vulnerability is due to an error in the vulnerable application when handling a maliciously crafted response. A remote attacker can exploit this to by enticing an user to send a request to the vulnerable application, causing policy bypass and the disclosure of HTTP state information via a crafted response.
Affected Products
GNU wget prior to 1.19.5
Impact
Security Bypass: Remote attackers can bypass security checks of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Apply the most recent upgrade or patch from the vendor:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=1fc9c95ec144499e69dc8ec76dbe07799d7d82cd
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 46149 |
| Created | May 24, 2018 |
| Updated | Nov 08, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2018-0494 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 9.64% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS |
| Affected App | Other |