CVE-1999-1549
Published Nov 16, 1999
Last updated 9 months ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-346
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:lynx_project:lynx:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "5F143511-3727-4D4A-89A3-226AC46394E9"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:lynx_project:lynx:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D629A2AF-397E-4893-BE86-D396EE88482A"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]