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CVE-2018-6198
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-01-25T03:29:00.697 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:01:29.940

Summary

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.

Affected products

tats — w3m

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References

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