7.5
HIGH
CVE-2018-6196
w3m HTML Table Indent Vulnerability (Infinite Recursion)
Description

w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 25, 2018, 3:29 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:10 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-6196 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-6196 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Tats w3m
1 W3m_project w3m

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 4 years, 10 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 17, 2018, 7:48 p.m. This repo has been linked 494 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-6196 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-6196 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html
    Added Reference https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92
    Added Reference https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 30, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00025.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-400 CWE-835
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 05, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00028.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 22, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 16, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 08, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 No Types Assigned https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/88 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92 No Types Assigned https://github.com/tats/w3m/commit/8354763b90490d4105695df52674d0fcef823e92 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:w3m_project:w3m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 0.5.3
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.05 }} 0.30%

score

0.83811

percentile

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