CVE-2018-6198
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Related
- Published
- 2018-01-25T03:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-01-08T10:20:06.930408Z
- 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.
- References
-
- 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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6198
Affected packages
Debian:11 / w3m
Package
- Name
- w3m
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/w3m?arch=source
Debian:12 / w3m
Package
- Name
- w3m
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/w3m?arch=source
Debian:13 / w3m
Package
- Name
- w3m
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/w3m?arch=source
Git / github.com/tats/w3m
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/tats/w3m
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixed
Affected versions
upstream/0.*
upstream/0.1.10+0.1.11pre+kokb23
upstream/0.3
upstream/0.5.1
upstream/0.5.2
upstream/0.5.3
v0.*
v0.5.3+debian-19
v0.5.3+git20150203
v0.5.3+git20150509
v0.5.3+git20150623
v0.5.3+git20150720
v0.5.3+git20150811
v0.5.3+git20151010
v0.5.3+git20151119
v0.5.3+git20160228
v0.5.3+git20160511
v0.5.3+git20160718
v0.5.3+git20161009
v0.5.3+git20161031
v0.5.3+git20161120
v0.5.3+git20170102