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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
CVE-2021-38165

Lynx through 2.8.9 mishandles the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, which allows remote attackers to discover cleartext credentials because they may appear in SNI data.

Published: August 07, 2021; 2:15:06 PM -0400
V4.0:(not available)
V3.1: 5.3 MEDIUM
V2.0: 2.6 LOW
CVE-1999-1549

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.

Published: November 16, 1999; 12:00:00 AM -0500
V4.0:(not available)
V3.1: 7.8 HIGH
V2.0: 5.0 MEDIUM