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
02 Description
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
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
- 2.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.0% 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
- Moderate. 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
- 2007-09-21 20:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-09-21
- Assigning CNA
- canonical
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 61f2596a62576b3d9c16d970e14984aaf5b5870d4c29737c806ddb42c4a6ccff
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com26956http://secunia.com/advisories/26956
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10335https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10335
- bugzilla.elinks.czhttp://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937
- secunia.com27062http://secunia.com/advisories/27062
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2007-2224https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00335.html
- secunia.com27125http://secunia.com/advisories/27125
- www.debian.orgDSA-1380http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1380
- secunia.com26936http://secunia.com/advisories/26936
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0933http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0933.html
- www.securityfocus.com20071005 rPSA-2007-0209-1 elinkshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481606/100/0/threaded
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297981
- www.securitytracker.com1018764http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018764
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elinks/+bug/141018
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2007-710https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00079.html
- www.securityfocus.com25799http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25799
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-519-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-519-1
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3278http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3278
- secunia.com27132http://secunia.com/advisories/27132
- secunia.com26949http://secunia.com/advisories/26949
- secunia.com27038http://secunia.com/advisories/27038
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- elinks Fixed in 0.11.1-1.5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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