CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5034

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-09-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of the POST request to the CONNECT request in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to sniff sensitive data that would have been protected by TLS. NOTE: this issue only occurs when a proxy is defined for https.

Affected configurations

• elinks elinks (<= 0.11.1) • elinks elinks (<= 0.11.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References