Improper Data Handling Affecting tats/w3m package, versions [,0.5.3.post1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TATSW3M-2364297
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-6198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tats/w3m to version 0.5.3.post1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Data Handling 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

CVSS Base Scores

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