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CVE-2016-9431
An issue was discovered in the Tatsuya Kinoshita w3m fork before 0.5.3-31. Infinite recursion vulnerability in w3m allows remote attackers…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By mitre
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- GLSA-201701-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/10 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161118 Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-10241 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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