CVE-1999-1549

Summary

CVE-1999-1549 is a vulnerability affecting Lynx 2.x web browsers. This issue arises from Lynx's inability to distinguish between internal and external HTML, enabling a local attacker to read sensitive information from a user's temporary files. Maliciously crafted URLs can lead the browser to modify the user's configuration file, potentially granting the attacker execution privileges.

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