Lynx Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6207

SQL injection vulnerability in products.asp in Evolve shopping cart (aka Evolve Merchant) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the partno parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating that it is a forced SQL...

CVE-2006-5953

SQL injection vulnerability in viewcart.asp in Evolve shopping cart (aka Evolve Merchant) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the zoneid...

CVE-2012-5821

Lynx does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate, related to improper use of a certain GnuTLS...

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...

CVE-2023-0750

Yellobrik PEC-1864 implements authentication checks via javascript in the frontend interface. When the device can be accessed over the network an attacker could bypass authentication. This would allow an attacker to : - Change the password, resulting in a DOS of the users Change the streaming...

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...

CVE-2014-5002

The lynx gem before 1.0.0 for Ruby places the configured password on command lines, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing...

CVE-2017-1000211

Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto...

CVE-2016-9179

lynx: It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different...

CVE-2010-2810

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)...

CVE-2006-7234

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Lynx before 2.8.6rel.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via malicious (1) .mailcap and (2) mime.types files in the current working...

CVE-2008-4690

lynx 2.8.6dev.15 and earlier, when advanced mode is enabled and lynx is configured as a URL handler, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lynxcgi: URL, a related issue to CVE-2005-2929. NOTE: this might only be a vulnerability in limited deployments that have...