CVE-1999-1549

published 1999-11-16

CVE-1999-1549: Lynx 2.x does not properly distinguish between internal and external HTML, which may allow a local attacker to read a "secure" hidden form value from a…

Priority P4 20 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

Lynx 2.x does not properly distinguish between internal and external HTML, which may allow a local attacker to read a "secure" hidden form value from a temporary file and craft a LYNXOPTIONS: URL that causes Lynx to modify the user's configuration file and execute commands.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
lynx_project	lynx	—	—
lynx_project	lynx	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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