CVE-2007-5034: Elinks

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of the POST request to the CONNECT request in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to sniff sensitive data that would have been protected by TLS. NOTE: this issue only occurs when a proxy is defined for https.

Affected products

• Elinks Elinks: up to and including 0.11.1; up to and including 0.11.2

Published 2007-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.