Vulnerability CVE-2012-6709

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2012-6709 (CCN-152054)

Assigned:

2018-02-23

Published:

2018-02-23

Updated:

2018-03-20

Summary:

ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.9 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
5.2 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): High Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
4.7 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): None

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): None

5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): None

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-295

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2012-6709

Source: CCN
Type: ELinks Web site
Full-Featured Text WWW Browser

Source: CCN
Type: Twibright Web site
Twibright Labs: Links

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694658

Source: CCN
Type: Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 881399
(CVE-2012-6709) CVE-2012-6709 elinks/links: does not properly verify SSL certificates

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881399

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
elinks-twibright-cve20126709-weak-security(152054)

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2012-6709

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:elinks:elinks:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2:

cpe:/a:twibright:links:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:elinks:elinks:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:twibright:links:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201267090000000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20126709000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - untriaged.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20126709000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:201267090000000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20126709000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201267090000000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20126709000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201267090000000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-02-23
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20126709000	V	CVE-2012-6709 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.	2018-02-23

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