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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-6198

w3m through 0.5.3 does not properly handle temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.

  • Published: Jan 25, 2018
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2018-6198
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.3
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 12.04 12.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 17.10 17.10.x
tats / w3m - 0.5.3.x