CVE-2007-5034
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of the POST request to the CONNECT request in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to sniff sensitive data that would have been protected by TLS. NOTE: this issue only occurs when a proxy is defined for https.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5015)
- Published
- September 21, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5015 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- elinks / elinks
References
- http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26936
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26949
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26956
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27038
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27062
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27125
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27132
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1380
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0933.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481606/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25799
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018764
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-519-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3278
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elinks/+bug/141018
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297981
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10335
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00079.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00335.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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