{"id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-6198","details":"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.","modified":"2025-12-03T22:49:02.530202Z","published":"2018-01-25T03:29:00.697Z","upstream":["CVE-2018-6198"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6198"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"w3m","ecosystem":"Alpine:v3.23","purl":"pkg:apk/alpine/w3m?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3_git20241203-r0"}]}],"versions":["0.5.3-r0","0.5.3-r1","0.5.3-r2","0.5.4-r0","0.5.5-r0"],"ecosystem_specific":{},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6198.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}