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CVE-2007-5034

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5034 describes a vulnerability in ELinks versions prior to 0.11.3 where sensitive data from POST requests to HTTPS URLs could be exposed in cleartext to remote attackers. This occurs when a proxy is configured for HTTPS, as the body and content headers are appended to the CONNECT request. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium) with a network attack vector and medium complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure (CWE-200). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: elinks-0:0.9.2-3.3.5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: elinks-0:0.11.1-5.1.0.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5034Moderate

elinks reveals POST data to HTTPS proxy

Feb 24, 2007

References

bugzilla.elinks.cz / show_bug.cgi
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/elinks/+bug/141018
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/26936
secunia.com / advisories/26949
secunia.com / advisories/26956
secunia.com / advisories/27038
secunia.com / advisories/27062
secunia.com / advisories/27125
secunia.com / advisories/27132
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10335
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00079.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00335.html
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1380
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0933.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/481606/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/25799
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-519-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3278