CVE-2007-2027
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog
02 Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 57.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-04-13 18:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 13:23Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-04-13
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134Use of Externally-Controlled Format StringBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4921bc85428c1b018c82178770aad26e16f4dbb1f64862c96d3982196ca336b1
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com25550http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
- www.trustix.org2007-0017http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-457-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- secunia.com25198http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-1686http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
- osvdb.org35668http://osvdb.org/35668
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9741https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
- www.securityfocus.com23844http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- secunia.com25169http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- secunia.com25255http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200706-03http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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