ELinks Proxy CONNECT Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA26956
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Popularity: 5,371 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ELinks 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-5034


Description:
A weakness has been reported in ELinks, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The content of POST requests sent to HTTPS webservers via a proxy is sent unencrypted via the CONNECT command to the configured proxy. This can be exploited to disclose the content of POST requests by e.g. sniffing network traffic.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 0.11.3.

Solution:
Update to version 0.11.3.
http://www.elinks.cz/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo

Original Advisory:
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=937


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