{"id":"CVE-1999-1549","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-1999-1549","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:52:57.114Z","title":"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…","description":"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 commands.","published":"1999-11-16T05:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:50:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-346"],"affected":["lynx project/lynx"],"epss":{"score":0.00574,"percentile":0.47107,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94286509804526&w=2","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/804","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94286509804526&w=2","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/804","tags":["Broken Link","Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1549","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}