CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6198
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• tats w3m (<= 0.5.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/888097 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/888097 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ Third Party Advisory