CVE
- Id
- 1529
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1549
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(3) Cole, Foat, Wall
- Comments
- Frech> XF:lynx-lynxurl-spoof(8342)