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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 4.7 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-01-25
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Affected products
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855
- https://bugs.debian.org/888097
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
