University Of Kansas: Security Vulnerabilities
Lynx 2.8.5, and other versions before 2.8.6dev.15, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) lynxcgi:, (2) lynxexec, and (3) lynxprog links, which are not properly restricted in the default configuration in some environments.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.06
Published
2005-11-18
Lynx, lynx-ssl, and lynx-cur before 2.8.6dev.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a web page or HTML email that contains invalid HTML including (1) a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and (2) a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, as demonstrated by mangleme. NOTE: a followup suggests that the relevant trigger for this issue is the large COLS value.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.037
Published
2004-10-18
CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers into an HTTP request that is provided on the command line, via a URL containing encoded carriage return, line feed, and other whitespace characters.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.141
Published
2003-02-19
Buffer overflow in Lynx 2.x allows remote attackers to crash Lynx and possibly execute commands via a long URL in a malicious web page.
CVSS Score
7.6
EPSS Score
0.031
Published
2000-02-27
Lynx WWW client allows a remote attacker to specify command-line parameters which Lynx uses when calling external programs to handle certain protocols, e.g. telnet.
CVSS Score
10.0
EPSS Score
0.013
Published
1999-09-15
Lynx allows a local user to overwrite sensitive files through /tmp symlinks.
CVSS Score
1.2
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
1999-02-11