VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-9439
Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.82%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.82%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTML page.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.82% probability · 79th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- tats/w3m
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogIssue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/20Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLogIssue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/20Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-08
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.