CVE-2007-2027: Elinks

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog (.po file) in a "../po" directory, which can be leveraged to conduct format string attacks.

Affected products

• Elinks Elinks: version 0.11.1 only

Published 2007-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.