CVE-2004-1488: GNU Wget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Wget: version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.9 only; version 1.9.1 only

Published 2005-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.