Is CVE-2004-1488 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2004-1488 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2004-1488?

CVE-2004-1488 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2004-1488?

CVE-2004-1488 has an EPSS score of 11.92% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2004-1488

MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctl

5.0

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

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.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

11.92%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261755
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110269474112384&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/20960
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012472
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-771.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11871
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18421
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9750
https://usn.ubuntu.com/145-1/

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.