PT-2018-17403 · W3M+3 · W3M+3

Tatsuya Kinoshita · Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-6198

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions w3m versions prior to 0.5.3

Description The issue arises from improper handling of temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable. This allows a local attacker to potentially craft a symlink attack, enabling them to overwrite arbitrary files.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.3, update to version 0.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3081

ALT-PU-2020-3099

CVE-2018-6198

MGASA-2018-0312

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1142-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11504-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1

USN-3555-1

USN-3555-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

W3M

References · 34

• https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3555-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/888097 · Patch
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0312.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0776-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6198 · Security Note