Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4690

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-22 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:24:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 defined a lynxcgi: handler.