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CVE-1999-1549

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-346

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.

Affected products

• Lynx Project Lynx: 2.7, 2.8

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94286509804526&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/804
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94286509804526&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/804

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