CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6772

9.3 HIGH Published 2006-12-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name (CN) field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL.

Affected configurations

• w3m w3m 0.5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References