CVE-2012-6709 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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

Published: 2018-02-23

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-6550	ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00579.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694658
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881399
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6709
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6709

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00146}`	epss `{'score': 0.00202}`

Subscriptions

Elinks Elinks

Twibright Links

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-23T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:43:12.705Z

Reserved: 2018-02-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6709

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-23T17:29:00.207

Modified: 2026-06-16T23:48:39.037

Link: CVE-2012-6709

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-11-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-6709 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-295
Improper Certificate Validation

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