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CVE-2018-6198

4.7 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (4.7). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-59
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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