CVE-2016-9631 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork prior to version 0.5.3-33. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by enticing a user to open a specially crafted HTML page, leading to a segmentation fault and crash of the w3m browser. With a CVSS v3 score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but can result in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage 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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