Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1549

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-01 17:18:07

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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 users configuration file and execute commands.

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