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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2006-7234 json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Lynx before 2.8.6rel.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via malicious (1) .mailcap and (…

published 2008-10-27 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-7211

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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 directory.

Patch / fix

  • lynx RHEL 2.1 2.8.4-18.1.3
  • lynx RHEL 3 2.8.5-11.3
  • lynx RHEL 4 2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1
  • lynx RHEL 5 2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0965

  • lynx openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.9.0~dev.9-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11033-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-7234 updated cvss 4.4

lynx: .mailcap and .mime.types files read from CWD

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 lynx 2.8.5-11.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) lynx 2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 lynx 2.8.4-18.1.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 lynx 2.8.5-11.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 lynx 2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) lynx 2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1
    +8 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 lynx 2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 lynx 2.8.4-18.1.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 lynx 2.8.5-11.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 lynx 2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 lynx 2.8.4-18.1.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 lynx 2.8.5-11.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 lynx 2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 lynx 2.8.4-18.1.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0965

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-32530)

Exploit prediction

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32530 Lynx 2.8 - '.mailcap'/'.mime.type' Local Code Execution remote, 2008-11-03

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.