8.9 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.053 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.9%
Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain name.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
lynx | eq | 2.8.8 dev.2 | |
lynx | eq | 2.8.8 dev.3 | |
lynx | eq | 2.8.8 dev.1 | |
lynx | eq | 2.8.8 dev.4 |