CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1549

7.8 HIGH Published 1999-11-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-11-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-346

Description

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 configurations

• lynx project lynx 2.7 • lynx project lynx 2.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-346 Origin Validation Error weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-346 Origin Validation Error weakness

References