CVE-2006-6772: w3m

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the inputAnswer function in file.c in w3m before 0.5.2, when run with the dump or backend option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Common Name (CN) field of an SSL certificate associated with an https URL.

Affected products

• w3m w3m: version 0.5.1 only

Published 2006-12-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.