CVE-1999-1549

Summary

CVE-1999-1549 is a vulnerability affecting Lynx 2.x web browsers. The issue arises from Lynx's failure to distinguish between internal and external HTML, allowing a local attacker to read sensitive information from temporary files. This can result in the attacker crafting a malicious LYNXOPTIONS URL, which in turn modifies the user's configuration file and executes commands. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to users, as it can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary commands on the affected system.

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