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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• 26956 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10335 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 27062 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2007-2224 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 27125 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 26936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2007:0933 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 20071005 rPSA-2007-0209-1 elinks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1018764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elinks/+bug/141018 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2007-710 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 25799 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• USN-519-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• ADV-2007-3278 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 27132 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 26949 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 27038 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-5034](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-5034.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-5034)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 15:17 UTC.