CVE-2018-6198

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.179

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-debuginfo-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) w3m-debugsource-0.5.3.git20161120-161.3.4.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234