CVE-2021-38165
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2021-38165 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2021-08-07 18:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2023-11-07 03:37:00 UTC |
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| Description | 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 data. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| oss-security - Re: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL certificate validation -> leaks
password in clear text via SNI (under some circumstances) |
MISC |
www.openwall.com |
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| Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4953-1 lynx |
DEBIAN |
www.debian.org |
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| [SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
FEDORA |
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| libwww/HTParse.c at f010b4cc58d32f34b162f0084fe093f7097a61f0 · w3c/libwww · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
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| oss-security - Re: Re: Bug#991971: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL
certificate validation -> leaks password in clear text via SNI (under some
circumstances) |
MLIST |
www.openwall.com |
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| lynx for LYNX |
MISC |
lynx.invisible-island.net |
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| #991971 - lynx: SSL certificate validation fails with URLs containing user name or user name and password, i.e. https://user:password@host/ and https://user@host/; leaks password in clear text via SNI - Debian Bug report logs |
MISC |
bugs.debian.org |
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| oss-security - Re: Re: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL certificate
validation -> leaks password in clear text via SNI (under some
circumstances) |
MISC |
www.openwall.com |
|
| oss-security - Re: Re: Bug#991971: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL
certificate validation -> leaks password in clear text via SNI (under some
circumstances) |
MISC |
www.openwall.com |
|
| oss-security - Re: Re: Bug#991971: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL
certificate validation -> leaks password in clear text via SNI (under some
circumstances) |
MLIST |
www.openwall.com |
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| [SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
FEDORA |
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| [SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
FEDORA |
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| oss-security - Re: Bug#991971: [Lynx-dev] bug in Lynx' SSL certificate validation
-> leaks password in clear text via SNI (under some circumstances) |
MLIST |
www.openwall.com |
|
| [SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
|
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| [SECURITY] [DLA 2736-1] lynx security update |
MLIST |
lists.debian.org |
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| [SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
|
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| [SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: lynx-2.8.9-13.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists |
|
lists.fedoraproject.org |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 178747 Debian Security Update for lynx (DSA 4953-1)
- 178748 Debian Security Update for lynx (DLA 2736-1)
- 180403 Debian Security Update for lynx (CVE-2021-38165)
- 281890 Fedora Security Update for lynx (FEDORA-2021-f59bda7d94)
- 281918 Fedora Security Update for lynx (FEDORA-2021-232161e4d5)
- 296060 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 37.0.1.101.1 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
- 355607 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for lynx : ALAS2-2023-2145
- 357252 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for lynx : ALAS2023-2024-535
- 501969 Alpine Linux Security Update for lynx
- 504129 Alpine Linux Security Update for lynx
- 940574 AlmaLinux Security Update for lynx (ALSA-2022:2129)
- 960411 Rocky Linux Security Update for lynx (RLSA-2022:2129)
