CVE-2004-1488

Exp

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.

Published: 2005-04-27 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2004-1488 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 13.30%, 94th percentile). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2004-1488

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
24813 exploit_db edb 2004-12-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-1488

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 2025-03-30 21.92% 13.30% -8.62%
2 2025-03-29 13.30% 21.92% +8.62%
3 2025-03-17 — 13.30% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-1488

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-2004-1488

OS Trackers for CVE-2004-1488

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2004-1488 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wget), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-1488
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-1488
ubuntu medium CVE-2004-1488 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wget), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2004-1488

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-1488

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gnu wget 1.8 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu wget 1.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu wget 1.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu wget 1.9 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu wget 1.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:wget:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-1488

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