CVE-2002-1405

Exp

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.

Published: 2003-02-19 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2002-1405 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.04%, 91th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2002-1405

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21722 exploit_db edb 2002-08-19 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-1405

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 13.12% 5.04% -8.08%
2 2026-01-17 14.08% 13.12% -0.96%
3 2025-05-07 — 14.08% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-1405

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-1405

OS Trackers for CVE-2002-1405

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2002-1405 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (lynx), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2002-1405
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2002-1405

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-1405

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
elinks elinks 0.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
elinks elinks 0.3.2 cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
links links 0.96 cpe:2.3:a:links:links:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.2_rel1 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.2_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.3_rel1 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.3_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.4_rel1 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.4_rel1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
university_of_kansas lynx 2.8.5_dev8 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_kansas:lynx:2.8.5_dev8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-1405

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