Auth bypass in Elinks

CVE-2012-4545

The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, when using HTTP Negotiate or GSS-Negotiate authentication, delegates user credentials through GSSAPI, which allows remote servers to authenticate as the client via the delegated credentials.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.019 (77.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Elinks — versions 0.12
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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