CVE-2007-2027
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.8%EU EUVD
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog (.po file) in a "../po" directory, which can be leveraged to conduct format string attacks.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-134
- EPSS score
- 0.8% (58th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2022)
- Published
- April 13, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2022 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- elinks / elinks
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- http://osvdb.org/35668
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25169(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25198(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25550(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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