CVE-2012-6709 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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 0.00191.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Elinks	Elinks
Twibright	Links

Configuration 1 [-]

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

Configuration 2 [-]

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

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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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

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

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

Link: CVE-2012-6709

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:46:43.680

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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