CVE-2016-9628 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork (before version 0.5.3-33). A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious HTML page, leading to a segmentation fault and crash of the w3m browser. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can cause high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.5.3-32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tats:w3m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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