CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2929

Published: Nov 18, 2005 | Modified: Oct 19, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

Lynx 2.8.5, and other versions before 2.8.6dev.15, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) lynxcgi:, (2) lynxexec, and (3) lynxprog links, which are not properly restricted in the default configuration in some environments.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Lynx University_of_kansas 2.8.5 (including) 2.8.5 (including)
Lynx University_of_kansas 2.8.6 (including) 2.8.6 (including)
Lynx University_of_kansas 2.8.6_dev13 (including) 2.8.6_dev13 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat lynx-0:2.8.5-11.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat lynx-0:2.8.5-18.2 *

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