CVE-2018-0494: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 16.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c via a \r\n sequence in a continuation line.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• GNU Wget: before 1.19.5 (fixed in 1.19.5)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.