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)