github - ghsa-gvrg-2xvq-7j38

ghsa-gvrg-2xvq-7j38

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:53

Modified

2022-05-13 01:53

Severity ?

4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

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.

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  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:53:03Z",
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CVE-2018-6198 (GCVE-0-2018-6198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-01-25 03:00

Modified

2024-08-05 05:54

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://bugs.debian.org/888097	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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