ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - elinks/links: does not properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2012-6709)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - elinks/links: does not properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2012-6709)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - elinks/links: does not properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2012-6709)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the version of the elinks package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL     Certificate Validation.(CVE-2012-6709)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199791	RHEL 7 : elinks (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199774	RHEL 6 : elinks (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199693	RHEL 5 : elinks (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
132291	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2574)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131868	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2376)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130851	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : elinks (EulerOS-SA-2019-2142)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-6709

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