Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-6198 First vendor Publication 2018-01-24
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-12-29

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Overall CVSS Score 4.7
Base Score 4.7 Environmental Score 4.7
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 4.7
Exploitabality Sub Score 1
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact None
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6198

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Os 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-02-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-0ad6e73ac0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_e72d5bf507a011e882480021ccb9e74d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102855
CONFIRM https://bugs.debian.org/888097
https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b242753
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m/commit/18dcbadf2771cdb0c18509b14e4e73505b...
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/

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Date Informations
2024-01-03 09:27:44
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2023-12-29 21:28:00
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2023-07-27 01:46:31
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2022-08-17 01:40:14
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2021-05-04 13:19:03
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2021-04-22 02:34:19
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2020-05-23 02:19:46
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2020-05-23 01:18:46
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2019-10-03 09:21:25
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2019-04-05 09:19:06
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2019-03-02 00:18:17
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2018-03-22 09:19:28
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2018-03-16 09:19:11
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2018-02-08 21:20:36
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2018-02-02 09:20:07
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2018-01-25 09:21:51
  • First insertion