Information disclosure in Elinks
CVE-2007-5034
ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of the POST request to the CONNECT request in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to sniff sensitive data that would have been protected by TLS. NOTE: this issue only occurs when a proxy is defined for https.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.026 (83.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Elinks
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)