Vulnerabilities > Lynx Project > Lynx > 2.8

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
1999-11-16 CVE-1999-1549 Origin Validation Error vulnerability in Lynx Project Lynx 2.7/2.8
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.
local
low complexity
lynx-project CWE-346
7.8