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Alpine: wget: security update to 1.17.1-r2

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 407607

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - CRLF injection vulnerability in the url_parse function in url.c in Wget through 1.19.1 allows remote
 attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in the host subcomponent of a URL.
 (CVE-2017-6508)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-6508

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 407607

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6508

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6508

BID: 96877