CVE-2018-6198

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6198
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6198.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6198
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Published
2018-01-25T03:29:00Z
Modified
2026-05-17T11:54:22Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "last_affected":  "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "17.10"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages