ALPINE-CVE-2018-6198
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6198
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6198.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6198
- Upstream
- Published
- 2018-01-25T03:29:00.697Z
- Modified
- 2025-12-03T22:49:02.530202Z
- Severity
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- 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References