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Vulnerability details: VCID-5198-2nv2-q3em
Vulnerability ID VCID-5198-2nv2-q3em
Aliases CVE-2018-6196
Summary w3m through 0.5.3 is prone to an infinite recursion flaw in HTMLlineproc0 because the feed_table_block_tag function in table.c does not prevent a negative indent value.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.2
Risk 1.6
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6196.json
epss 0.0067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6196
epss 0.0067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6196
epss 0.0067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6196
epss 0.0067 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6196
cvssv3 6.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6196.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6196
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6196
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1539157 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539157
USN-3555-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-1/
USN-3555-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3555-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6196.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.71737
EPSS Score 0.0067
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T17:15:02.550701+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0