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.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo

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

Deep Links
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