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medium 5.9

CVE-2012-6709 json

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

published 2018-02-23 8 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-6550

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • elinks Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.13~20190125-3
  • links2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6709

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-6709 updated cvss 5.8

elinks/links: does not properly verify SSL certificates

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 elinks Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 elinks Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 elinks
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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